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The Big Burn: Bush's Forestry Plan Courts Its Own Disaster

By AAN Staff
september 3, 2002  06:53 pm
The Big Burn: Bush's Forestry Plan Courts Its Own Disaster
George Bush's forestry plan does a nice job of opening up public lands to abusive logging practices, but it won't extinguish one wildfire or put out one house fire, Joshua Malbin writes in LA Weekly. "Bush would essentially give the Forest Service or the Bureau of Land Management license to do anything, provided it called what it was doing a 'fuels-treatment project.' Bush has made it clear he plans to use this license to dramatically increase logging, " Malbin writes. At the same time Bush manages to blame "radical environmentalists" and the Clinton administration for this summer's massive wildfires.
View full article at LA Weekly