Bush Opens Part of Alaskian Forest Environmental / General Interest Date: Dec 24, 2003 - 10:43 AM From CNN.com http://www.cnn.com/2003/US/West/12/23/tongass.log.ap/index.html WASHINGTON (AP) -- Reversing a Clinton-era policy, the Bush administration on Tuesday opened 300,000 more acres of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the nation's largest, to possible logging or other development. The administration will allow 3 percent of the forest's 9.3 million acres that were put off-limits to road-building by former President Clinton, to have roads built on them and perhaps opened to use by the timber industry. The Tongass comprises 16.8 million acres. "The people of Alaska benefit," said spokesman Bill Bradshaw of the U.S. Forest Service, part of the Agriculture Department. "What's behind this is the legal challenge by the state. The main point is that it brought a resolution to the Alaska challenge." From CNN.com - use the link at the top of the article to read the whole thing This article comes from Phoenix Phamily - Supporting the Phoenix festivals community http://www.jaxpagan.com/ The URL for this story is: http://www.jaxpagan.com/modules.php?op=modload&name=News&file=article&sid=327