Complex issue
Bush is applying his usual hamfist to a rather complex issue here.
On one hand, people living in a state need to be free to develop that land in thst state. On the other side, it's also a good thing to preserve the wilderness and environment, both for future generations and our selves.
Balancing those two issues against each other is difficult. And made all the more difficult because ecological areas can't be neatly divided up along convient lines. You can't take 10 trees here and ten trees there and another ten way over yonder and call it a forest, it has to be one continous unbroken segement.
The current White House isn't even trying, as long as the land is going to some company they are going out of their way to give in.
Jay
