Bush wipes out decades of US Forestry policy
Chris in Paris ·
Who needs the environment when condos can be slapped up and friends can make a handsome profit?
The deal was struck behind closed doors between Mark E. Rey, the former timber lobbyist who oversees the U.S. Forest Service, and Plum Creek Timber Co., a former logging company turned real estate investment trust that is building homes. Plum Creek owns more than 8 million acres nationwide, including 1.2 million acres in the mountains of western Montana, where local officials were stunned and outraged at the deal.
"We have 40 years of Forest Service history that has been reversed in the last three months," said Pat O'Herren, an official in Missoula County, which is threatening to sue the Forest Service for forgoing environmental assessments and other procedures that would have given the public a voice in the matter..............
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Destroy it all . . . bring the whole country to its knees . . . all for profit for his cronies, for his dad, for the Saudis . . . he's a monster.
that he is. the fault now lies with us (well NOT you and i because we speak up). we allow him to get away with this
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