It would be nice to see this area receive wilderness status at some point. The RMF is truly one of the last great natural places in the world.
“We finally got it done, we finally protected the Rocky Mountain Front forever,” said Sen. Max Baucus, D-Mont., who added the provision to the larger tax package in the final days of the Senate session.
The same judge who made last week’s ruling also ruled on Sept. 20 that President Bush must reinstate the roadless rule President Clinton enacted before he left office. The 2001 Roadless Rule prohibited activities like drilling for gas, mining and building new roads on about 58.5 million acres of roadless land managed by the U.S. Forest Service.
WASHINGTON (AP) — With just days remaining in the legislative session, two Republican senators say there is not enough time to take up a controversial bill to speed logging of burned forests and planting of new trees after storms and wildfires.
My family, friends and I have been hunting mule deer and elk in the unroaded backcountry west and south of Strawberry Reservoir in the Uinta National Forest for many years. We want it kept roadless. We also think that all roadless areas should be kept roadless.
“I’ve lived in South Fork for 10 years. I go up there a lot. I ski there whenever I can,” said Diana Finkel. “It’s really too bad. It’s just really mean-spirited.”
I wonder what the former twenty year timber industry lobbyist has in mind?
The system of laws governing public land management in the United States is disjointed and archaic, according to Mark Rey, Undersecretary of Agriculture for Natural Resources and Environment.