CAUGHT WITH THEIR BRIEFS DOWN
The White House has told the Justice Department to figure out a legal
way to cast aside former President Clinton's plan to ban
road-building and logging on 58.5 million acres of national
forestland, reports the Washington Post.  The Bush administration has
until the end of next week to file a brief in an Idaho federal court
announcing whether it will support the plan.  Some Western
Republicans and administration officials say the roadless rule was
approved hurriedly before President Clinton left office, but enviros
note that the rule was more than a year in the making, during which
time the U.S. Forest Service collected 1.6 million public comments on
the plan.

straight to the source:  Washington Post, Eric Pianin, 26 Apr, 2001
<http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A1831-2001Apr25.html>

do good:  Take action to defend Clinton's roadless plan
<http://www.gristmagazine.com/grist/dogood/forests.stm#roadless>

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