Environment America is the new home of U.S. PIRG’s environmental work.
Yesterday,
the Bush Administration ignored the appeal of the American public by
filing its own appeal of the February 7, 2007 ruling in favor of the
2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. More Americans took part in the
rule-making process for the 2001 Roadless Rule than in any other
federal rule-making in history. Of 4.2 million public comments received
by the Forest Service by the end of the 2004 comment period, more than
95 percent were in support of complete protection for all roadless
areas.
The Administration’s appeal in the 9th Circuit Court of
Appeals would make way for rolling back the 2001 Roadless Rule, and put
a third of our national forests on the chopping block once again.
How
many more comments will it take for President Bush to hear the appeals
that should count the most—those of the American people to protect our
last wild places.
BACKGROUND:
U.S. PIRG helped lead a
coalition that submitted millions of public comments in favor of the
2001 Roadless Rule to the Forest Service.
