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May 29, 2009

Feds halt new forest roads for one year

WASHINGTON (AP) — The Obama administration is calling for a one-year moratorium on road-building and development on millions of acres of remote national forests.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack issued a directive Thursday reinstating for one year a Clinton-era ban against new road construction and development in national forests. The 2001 rule banned road building and logging in more than 58 million acres of remote national forests, mostly in the West.


 
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