http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/0116logging-ON.html
Jan. 16, 2008
Bush administration to open national forests to mining and logging
WASHINGTON --
A new poll released today finds that a majority of Idaho voters oppose
a Bush administration plan to open six million acres, including areas
in Idaho's Greater Yellowstone Ecosystem, to phosphate mining,
commercial logging and energy exploration.
"In its final months, the Bush administration is attempting to give
logging and mining industries the keys to what is arguably some of the
most biologically diverse and valuable fish and wildlife habitat in
the nation," said Robert Vandermark, manager of the Heritage Forests
Campaign, a project of the Pew Environment Group.
"This is America's last forest frontier -- open the door to industrial
use and it could be gone forever."
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