Today, the L.A. Times reports the state of California filed suit against the U.S. Forest Service over the Bush Administration’s attempts to overturn the Roadless Rule. And they didn’t stop there.
The Golden State also slapped the Forest Service’s wrists on their current levels of designated Wilderness areas in California, saying the 500,000 acres already protected needs to at least double in order to protect endangered and threatened species.
Wow. Maybe a bit of payback for the fuel efficiency EPA waiver smackdown from a few months back?
Whatever the reason, it’s good to be a Californian today.
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The lands protected by the 2001 Roadless Rule is one set of lands in CA that can still be protected. There has been a lot of debate about these lands, but most people don’t have a good idea of where these lands are. You can explore the roadless areas of CA on Roadlessland.org (http://roadlessland.org), a non-commercial site put together to help people explore national forest roadless areas with maps, thousands of photos, comments and more.
The looks on those two morons’ faces says it all…but let’s not forget that Arnie still wants to close 48 of our state parks to balance the state budget. I think some fat trimming and salary cutting in the capital would get us ahead much quicker…