ROADLESS AREAS GETTING UNDERMINED: The Bush
administration has
offered
  to "suspend" protection for over 58 million acres of
 national forest
  roadless areas "pending a hearing" on a legal
challenge brought by
  "timber interests and the state of Idaho" says the
SF Chronicle, AP
  3/17. Environmentalists contend that the further
delay signals the
  administration's intention to  "undermine" the
forest protection plan
  by avoiding "any defense" and negotiating a court
settlement that
would
  effectively reverse the ban on most logging,
drilling and road
  building.


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