Stop Building Forest Roads
10 September 2000 - 2:00pm
The US Forest Service has endoresed President Clinton's call to ban road construction on 43 million acres of national forest land.
The roadbuilding moratorium is to slow the fragmentation of forests. With 7,000 acres of the country being developed every day, forests are being divided into chunks too small to adequately support wildlife or human recreation.
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Forest chief defends roadless-area plan
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The Denver Post, September 10, 2000
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