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BUSH KILLS TREES
In just over three years,
the Bush administration
has stripped protection
from 234 million acres
of federal land...
Recently one of the most popular conservation policies in
American history was dealt a crippling blow with the Bush
Administration's decision to dismantle the landmark Roadless Area
Conservation Rule. The "Roadless Rule" is a historic conservation
initiative enacted in January, 2001 to protect 58.5 million acres of
wild national forest land from most commercial logging and road
building. In changing the rule, the Administration has proposed a
convoluted process that will leave America's last wild forests open
to destructive commercial logging and road building by allowing
individual governors to decide whether federal lands located in their
state should receive federal protection. Not only would this give
governors unprecedented power over federal lands owned by all
Americans, it could lead to the destruction of pristine forests across
the country.
Three years ago. Agriculture
Secretary Veneman pledged to
uphold the Roadless Rule,
which was finalized in 20C1 fol
lowing several years of deliber
ation, 600 public meetings in
local communities nationwide,
and 1.7 million public com
ments which, by a margin of 95
percent of the comments
received, supported protecting these areas. Unfortunately, on the
third anniversary of this pledge, the Bush Administration ignores
that promise by further weakening this overwhelmingly popular rule.
In addition, the day before Christmas Eve the Bush
Administration had already eliminated protections for AlaskVs
Tongass Rainforest by completely exempting it from the Roadless
Rule. Immediately upon this exemption, six timber sales were
opened up in roadless areas with almost 50 more planned.
Unfortunately, the Bush Administration's forest policies are
moving the country in this direction, toward increased extraction
and development, and the Administration has missed no opportu
nity to ignore, weaken or roll back any form of protection for our
national forests or for roadless areas.
The new management plan for the Chattahoochee National
Forest here in Georgia leaves almost 87 percent of the roadless
forest areas in this national forest open to some form of road
building, logging or other destructive activities, unless these wild
areas are protected by the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. To put
this in perspective, the Chattahoochee encompasses 749,689 acres
of public land of which 64,874 acres are considered roadless, yet
only 13 percent of these roadless acres are currently protected from
possible loggings, road building and other development.
And Georgia's National Forests are not alone. If the rule is
reversed by the Bush Administration, 553,000 acres of national
forest in the Southern
It is time to protect our
remaining wild forests
and work to restore areas
damaged by past logging.
Appalachians, or 76 percent
of those wild forest areas,
would be placed into man
agement designations that
allow roadbuilding and/ or
logging not allowed under
the rule. There are currently
more than 12,000 miles of
roads criss-crossing the national forests of Alabama, Georgia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Tennessee, and Virginia.
As distressing as this is, none of it should be surprising. After
all, we now have as Undersecretary of Agriculture in charge of the
Forest Service a man who has spent the last 20 years as official or
lobbyist for the American Paper Institute, the National Forest
Products Association and the American Forest and Paper
Association, pressuring Congress to open up these same public lands
to the timber interests. In just over three years, the Bush
Administration has stripped protection from 234 million acres of
federal land, more than all of the 230 million acres protected by
President Theodore Roosevelt when he ushered in a century of
American land conservation in the early 20th Century.
There is a better way. These wild forests are places of national
importance, and they deserve a national policy to protect them for
future generations. It is time to protect our remaining wild forests
and work to restore areas damaged by past logging.
To address the changes to the Roadless Area Conservation Rule
submit a comment to:
Content Analysis Team, ATTN: Roadless State Petitions, USDA
Forest Service, P.0. Box 221090, Salt Lake City, UT 84122
Fax to: (801) 517-1014. Email to: statepetitionroadless@fs.fed.us.
Katherine Smolski
Katherine Smc'ski is Regional Conservation Organizer on the
Sierra Club National Forest Campaign. For more information visit:
http://www. sierraclub/forests.
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