Tuesday, March 6, 2012

Rules Focus on Fire Prevention in Forests

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Dateline: WASHINGTONThe Bush administration is about to drop a requirement to run environmental studies before logging or burning trees to prevent forest fires and wants to end consultations on whether such actions would affect endangered species.

Under the new policy, the Forest Service and Interior Department would not need an environmental before cutting or burning excess trees on as many as 190 million acres of federal land considered to be at-risk for a catastrophic wildfire.

"These new tools will reduce the layers of unnecessary red tape and procedural delay that prevent agency experts from acting quickly to protect communities and our natural …

Rules Focus on Fire Prevention in Forests00-00-0000
Dateline: WASHINGTONThe Bush administration is about to drop a requirement to run environmental studies before logging or burning trees to prevent forest fires and wants to end consultations on whether such actions would affect endangered species.

Under the new policy, the Forest Service and Interior Department would not need an environmental before cutting or burning excess trees on as many as 190 million acres of federal land considered to be at-risk for a catastrophic wildfire.

"These new tools will reduce the layers of unnecessary red tape and procedural delay that prevent agency experts from acting quickly to protect communities and our natural …

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