Bush May Oppose Logging Ban

"The regulation was one of the most far-reaching of Clinton's. It would protect more than a quarter of federal forests -- including large tracts of Alaska's Tongass National Forest, the largest temperate rain forest in the United States -- from most commercial logging and new road construction. Roughly 20 million acres in California -- 20 percent of the state's land area -- is administered by the U.S. Forest Service." While environmental groups had welcomed the rule, the timber industry was opposed to it.