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. He was a Western Watersheds Project Board Member off and on for many years, and was also its President for several years. For a long time he produced Ralph Maughan's Wolf Report. He was a founder of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. He and Jackie Johnson Maughan wrote three editions of "Hiking Idaho." He also wrote "Beyond the Tetons" and "Backpacking Wyoming's Teton and Washakie Wilderness." He created and is the administrator 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.