From GREENLines today:

BUSH ADMINISTRATION HALTS FOREST SERVICE WILDLIFE PROTECTION RULE:  "Under a
temporary rule issued Wednesday by the Bush administration, national forest
managers won't have to adhere to strict wildlife protections that have been
in place for more than two decades," said the Los Angeles Times, 9/30.  The
rule, issued in 1982 by the Reagan administration, directed the Forest
Service to manage national forests to maintain "viable populations" of fish
and wildlife and regulate logging in habitat for owls and other wildlife.
Conservationists see the move as a weakening of a key safeguard for
wildlife.  "It's been the [agency's] only rule protecting wildlife," said
Andy Stahl, executive director of Forest Service Employees for Environmental
Ethics.

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