Roadless Areas safe for another year
During the twlight of his term, President Clinton established new protections for roadless sections of the nation’s national forests and wild lands. The Bush Administration overturned that rule, endangering some of the nation’s best wild country.
Now, Obama has blocked Bush’s road building plans. Tom Vilsack, the new Secretary of Agriculture – home of the U.S. Forest Service – established a new one-year extension of the Clinton-era Roadless Rule. During the coming year, the Forest Service will re-examine the policy, with an eye toward making it permanent.
