“The Clinton Administration, its officials, and attorneys knew well the history of the Wilderness Act and what that law provides. They chose to ignore that history and law on their way out the door,” said William Perry Pendley, MSLF president. “The lower court’s ruling should be upheld.”
http://www.mountainstateslegal.org/press_releases.cfm?value=889
On top of everything else wrong with this, the roadless rule effectively bars the handicapped and the chronically ill from being able to enjoy these public lands.
I forwarded this on to the Blue Ribbon Coalition a group that battles to keep ORV trails open for public use for everyone...
It has prohibited management of burned areas in my county. The fires in these areas create dead and downed trees. As brush grows up among this, it establishes a heavy fuel base for the next fire to come through and nuke everything down to the soil. They are finding that as fire frequency and intensity is increasing, the forests are converting to brush fields that can’t re-establish themselves because the seedlings are burned before they can reach fire-resistant size.
This policy will convert a large mass of forest in northern California, with its attendant forest species.
Thanks, George. If we’re going to keep so much land in the hands of the government, any and all people should have access to it. Access shouldn’t be limited to the kings and queens of the hill (exclusive arbiters of nature that they believe themselves to be). I live up here, but I do disagree with most of my neighbors on such matters. Curiously, the great majority of those environmentalists and animal worshipers in my County are Republicans. ...haven’t figured out all of the reasons for that, yet.