Wow! the legal kickback on the Bush Administration’s lack of attention to the laws is coming fast and furious.
Two days ago, it was the big sage grouse case (which impacts way more than this beautiful upland game bird). Now is it his administration’s misnamed “Healthy Forests Initiative.
Story. Associated Press. Appeals Court Blocks Bush Logging Rule
From the Sierra Club on the decision. Sierra Club Victory in Ninth Circuit Deals Blow to Bush Administration’s So-Called “Healthy Forests” Initiative.
The case is Sierra Club v. Bosworth.
Ralph Maughan
Dr. Ralph Maughan is professor emeritus of political science at Idaho State University with specialties in natural resource politics, public opinion, interest groups, political parties, voting and elections. Aside from academic publications, he is author or co-author of three hiking/backpacking guides, and he is past President of the Western Watersheds Project and the creator of The Wildlife News.
The increase in logging was passed off as a wildfire management tool, but when I was there a few years back, nobody in the agency ever thought it was anything but kickbacks to logging companies. It’s nice to see the rest of the country catching up.