Our Forests at Risk: For lovers of wilderness, this is an emergency.
“On July 12th, the Bush administration announced a proposal to repeal the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which was enacted in January 2001 to protect the last pristine thirty percent of our national forests from logging and road-building. The administration plans to replace the rule with a meaningless process that allows governors to petition for protection of roadless areas in their states — or for more logging, mining and drilling.
The day this proposal takes effect, millions of acres of our last wild forests will be immediately at risk. “
Get involved; bowing to public pressure, the administration has just extended the comment period through November 15. Check out what is at stake and send your own message directly to the relevant decision makers today.
