Government
Dec. 7, 2007
9th Circuit Rejects Bush's Plan for Commercial Logging
A unanimous three-judge panel of the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals reversed a Sacramento trial judge and trashed the U.S. Forest Service's plans that included "fuels reduction" measures that environmentalists charged were thinly cloaked plans for increased commercial logging with scant review.
Daily Journal Staff Writer
To prevent forest fires, purposely torch large areas of the woods - or cut them down - the Bush administration prescribed after a catastrophic 2000 season, one of the worst in 50 years.
But the so-called Healthy Forests Initiative got a dose of cold water Wednesday from the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
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