Federal judge overturns ban on road-building in national forests

[XemaSab]

A federal judge in Wyoming has overturned a Clinton-era ban on road construction in nearly 60 million acres of national forest, extending a long-running dispute over U.S. Forest Service rules for large sections of undeveloped land.

U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer's ruling on Tuesday is the latest turn in a legal battle over the Clinton administration rule that limited logging and other development in roadless areas that make up nearly a third of national forest land.

Brimmer issued a permanent injunction against the so-called "roadless rule," saying that the ban was enacted in violation of the National Environmental Policy Act and the Wilderness Act.

"The Forest Service, in an attempt to bolster an outgoing president's environmental legacy, rammed through an environmental agenda that itself violates the country's well-established environmental laws," Brimmer wrote.

http://www.latimes.com/news/science/environment/la-na-roadless13-2008aug13,0,1559242.story

[flor-de-jasmim]

1. How many of these people are hoping the rapture is coming within months?

Presidents and judges should be required to take the same oath as physicians: First, do no harm.

[Bobbieo]

2. He still has 5 months to rape the wilderness. None one stopping him!!!