Posted on 09/20/2006 10:08:48 PM PDT by rwh
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Reacting to a California court ruling on roadless areas in national forests, Wyoming will seek to resurrect a lawsuit in which a federal judge struck down the Clinton-era ban on logging and other development in roadless areas.
"We had a case that threw out the Clinton rule," Gov. Dave Freudenthal said Tuesday in announcing the state will file a motion over the next week to revive its lawsuit.
A federal judge in San Francisco on Wednesday reinstated the Clinton administration ban on road construction in nearly a third of national forests, including 3.2 million acres in Wyoming. The decision overturned a Bush administration rule that allowed states to decide how to manage individual forests.
However, in 2003, U.S. District Judge Clarence Brimmer had overturned the Clinton rules in a lawsuit filed by Wyoming.
The Brimmer ruling was rendered moot when the Bush administration decided not to appeal the Brimmer decision and instead issued its own rules.
"Well, obviously, this decision in a federal district court in California tends to resurrect an issue which had been deemed moot," Freudenthal said. "And now we're going to go down and say 'OK, if this is no longer moot, we want to reactivate the Brimmer decision,' and we'll proceed.
"And my guess, lawyers will make an immense amount of money over the next year and not much will change."
Wyoming's action would "resurrect the status of events as they sat at the time it was declared moot," Freudenthal said.
Once the Wyoming lawsuit is revived, there will be no Clinton rules.
Erik Molvar, wildlife biologist with the Laramie-based Biodiversity Conservation Alliance, expressed disappointment in Freudenthal's comments, saying he was baffled "why anyone would try to prevent" protection of national forests.
"It seems like a shame to drag this thing out in litigation any longer," Molvar said.
Molvar said the California ruling on Wednesday was good for wildlife and people who like to hike, fish, hunt or ride horseback in the national forests.
"Roadless areas on the Bridger-Teton and Shoshone national forests will now be withdrawn from oil and gas leasing, preserving their value for wildlife and for public recreation," he said. "And roadless lands on the Bighorn National Forest, 85 percent of which were left open to the industrial destruction by the new forest plan, will now be accorded full protection."
Freudenthal said whatever happens with federal forest rules in court will not affect the state's separate agreement with the U.S. Forest Service deferring any new oil and gas leasing in the Bridger-Teton and Shoshone forests until new forest management plans for both forests are completed.
This is a most confusing bit of reporting I have read in quite some time. It would behove the "reporter" to understand his subject so that he could communicate better.
Bye bye miss MSM!
These are not legal issues; they are political issues!
More proof Congress needs to abolish the 9th Circuit Court.
Judge Bremmer is a Ford appointee from 1975.
The Judge that ruled today, Judge Laporte, is a Magistrate Judge appointed by the district judges in the Northern District of California.
posted this earlier today
Judge overturns Bush plan on roadless forests
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1704978/posts
Go Wyoming!
There's a difference between conservation and environmentalist idiocy. Conservation allows management of forests.....cutting and removal of dead trees (less tinder), managing roads (making firefighting a little easier), monitoring wildlife.....
Radical environmentalist prefer to leave the forests "untouched". Forests burn easier and faster, wildlife is endangered, streams are filled with gunk....
I'm pretty sick of it.
Well said!!!
Exactly! You nailed it.
Add in the economic impact for those who live there and that was perfectly said.
Thanks for the synopsis.
It means Wyoming can take the issue to the Supreme Court because of different prevailing rulings by two districts.
This I know. It still does not make the report any more coherent.
Building a house in a forest of old growth is like building a house in a hurricane zone. Sooner or later that house will meet up with disaster and be destroyed.
Yes it is. I live in a subdivision close to 500K houses built in the woods in north Spokane. This is the dry part of Washington State and the woods are dry pines.
I would'nt put my family there for all the money in the world.
There are still alot of jobs being lost due to the amount of land the Federal government owns (especially out west and in Alaska). I am all for conservation but we should ensure that we allow the local economy to prosper in balance with conservation.
What I don't get is how can a judge in the Northern California District court rule on a case that would be better suited for a judge on the bench in the Wyoming District Court.
(reprise) DFU SONG: American Pie (the day the MSM died)
DFU SONGS | 11-2004 | Lyrics, Doug from Upland
Posted on 11/05/2004 6:50:27 PM PST by doug from upland
This was written after the FReepers exposed the Rather phony docs. On the first Tuesday in November in the year of our Lord 2004, the mainstream media suffered a body blow that might not yet be lethal, but it is indeed painful. This is for us to savor and stick in their faces.
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A long, long time ago...when the TV news biz started
They knew not where it would go
They hoped it would last forever...no matter how they did their jobs
But there were things that they just couldn't know
The public trust they were abusing...they thought that they would catch us snoozing
They sneaked in their bias...pretending to be pious
Talk Radio, cable, and internet...showed them all that their match they met
In his Depends Cronkite wet and Old Media had died
So bye, bye to Old Media, bye
It was quite a run but you are done and now it won't fly
New Media's here, so be a big girl, don't cry
We were laughing as Old Media died...laughing as Old Media died
It was Brokaw, Jennings, and Rather who each night put out all that blather
They determined what was news
They pretended that they were real journalists...the more we heard, the more we're p*ssed
We grew so weary of their slanted views
Every chance they'd knock the GOP...it was obvious, the blind could see
While they put out their leftist prattle...we were getting set for the battle
Well, there came a guy named JimRob who had quite enough
It was time our side proved that it had the right stuff...he took charge and showed them it wasn't a bluff
Old Media would die
We were singing, bye, bye to Old Media, bye
It was quite a run but you are done and now it won't fly
New Media's here, so be a big girl, don't cry
We were laughing as Old Media died...laughing as Old Media died
For years the game they had been winning 'cause they were really good at spinning
It was easy as could be
Entertainment they sometimes threw in for fun...they came down hard on those with guns
Oh my, there's Katie's colonoscopy
There was shock when they examined her..."That's her brain" each one would soon concur
Then the nurses all started screaming...when they realized they're not dreaming
We heard some shout, "Here is a chance we cannot let pass...we will say we're sorry if we're being too crass
Everyone knew Katie's head was in her *ss"
Old Media would die
We were singing, bye, bye to Old Media, bye
It was quite a run but you are done and now it won't fly
New Media's here, so be a big girl, don't cry
We were laughing as Old Media died...laughing as Old Media died
Their cheerleading really was shameless...for what RATS did they're always blameless
No one had been too surprised
To the whole world they'd proven that they were whores...they kissed the feet of Michael Moore
Can I please have that pizza supersized?
He ballooned up to a half a ton...he could cause an eclipse of the sun
To the anchors he was a hero...while things burned they're playing like Nero
There was no chance they would show both sides of anything...propaganda they had been determined to bring
One day they were foiled by the vast right wing
Old Media would die
We were singing, bye, bye to Old Media, bye
It was quite a run but you are done and now it won't fly
New Media's here, so be a big girl, don't cry
We were laughing as Old Media died...laughing as Old Media died
Would they do what's right? They're saying, "NO, never"...they thought they were just so very clever
They thought they'd get away with it
Docs were found down in Sandy Berger's pants...and Dan Rather thought he'd take a chance
With those forgeries now George Bush he would get
Dan used them and he was elated...but Bush is misunderestimated
Thanks to a group of sleepers...pajama-wearing FReepers
So Dan Rather's plan would fail...Ken's frequency was now in a jail
A happy ending to this tale
Old Media would die
We were singing, bye, bye to Old Media, bye
It was quite a run but you are done and now it won't fly
New Media's here, so be a big girl, don't cry
We were laughing as Old Media died
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