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The Outdoor Industry Association this week launched a campaign to rally its members against the Bush administration's proposal to revamp the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, the embattled plan to limit development and logging on 43 million acres of national forest in the lower 48 states.
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Long-anticipated changes to Forest Service regulations governing hundreds of millions of acres of national forest and the Clinton-era Roadless Area Conservation Rule will be ready for public view in four to five weeks, Agriculture Undersecretary Mark Rey said yesterday.
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Recently the Bush administration announced massive changes to the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The proposed changes would exempt Alaska's Tongass National Forest from the rule, and allow individual states to file for an exemption from the rule. With these radical changes the administration is deceiving the American public into thinking they will "retain" the rule, while allowing timber companies access to these pristine areas.
Clearly this is not going over well with the American people, the press, or members of Congress. Just take a look at the response so far...
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Click Here to learn more about rollbacks to the wildly popular Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
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