he Bush administration has given resource extraction industries the equivalent of the Hope Diamond for Christmas. It has adopted sweeping new regulations that relax protections for wildlife and that eliminate requirements for scientists - and the public - to weigh in on logging, mining and other activities.
It will take months, even years, to understand the damage that will result from the replacement of these rules, most of which were put in place by the Reagan administration.
The most devastating hit may be the decision to reverse a commitment at the heart of decades of battles over the Northwest's old growth forests and spotted owls - that federal officials maintain "viable populations" of wild animals in more than 191 million acres of national forests.
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/12/27/ed.edit.forests.phn.1227.html
give a hoot, don't pollute. good thing thier shutting the owls up.
It will take months, even years, to understand the damage that will result from the replacement of these rules, most of which were put in place by the Reagan administration.
The most devastating hit may be the decision to reverse a commitment at the heart of decades of battles over the Northwest's old growth forests and spotted owls - that federal officials maintain "viable populations" of wild animals in more than 191 million acres of national forests.
http://www.registerguard.com/news/2004/12/27/ed.edit.forests.phn.1227.html
give a hoot, don't pollute. good thing thier shutting the owls up.
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