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Judge Rejects Building of Roads Inside National Forests

HeadlineSep 21, 2006

Here in this country, a federal judge has rejected an attempt by the Bush administration to allow new roads be built through nearly 60 million acres of national forest land. President Bush wanted to open up the land to logging, mining and other activities. U.S. District Judge Elizabeth Laporte ruled that the policy ignored both the National Environmental Policy Act and the U.S. Endangered Species Act. The judge reinstated a Clinton administration rule that prohibited new roads on some pristine wildlands.

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