Judge rejects Bush plan to log in Sequoia National Monument
Do you believe these people? Not being content to ruin the lands of other nations...not caring that they pollute their panoramic views...and foul their natural resources...they want to put their stamp on the Sequoias. They want to allow logging in the National forest...and for goodness sakes we all worry that fires could come along and destroy these one of a kind tree forests. Is there nothing that these people find sacred...except their bank accounts?!!! This is an unrealistic and stupid stunt. I'd sooner the White House burned down...it can be replaced...
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Bush administration plan to allow commercial logging in Giant Sequoia National Monument, home to two-thirds of the world's largest trees.
U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer sided with state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and environmental groups that sued the U.S. Forest Service over plans to log about 3,200 acres of the 328,000-acre preserve, home to 38 Sequoia groves in Central California.
SAN FRANCISCO - A federal judge on Tuesday blocked a Bush administration plan to allow commercial logging in Giant Sequoia National Monument, home to two-thirds of the world's largest trees.
U.S. District Judge Charles R. Breyer sided with state Attorney General Bill Lockyer and environmental groups that sued the U.S. Forest Service over plans to log about 3,200 acres of the 328,000-acre preserve, home to 38 Sequoia groves in Central California.
"The Forest Service's interest in harvesting timber has trampled the applicable environmental laws," Breyer wrote, calling the agency's forest management plan "incomprehensible."