Forest Service Puts Small Projects on Hold (Jerks!You won't believe this!)

[DeepModem Mom]

WP/AP: Forest Service Puts Small Projects on Hold
Associated Press
Sunday, October 2, 2005; Page A07


GRANTS PASS, Ore. -- From cutting the Capitol Christmas tree to minor forest thinning, the U.S. Forest Service has put hundreds of small projects across the country on hold while it reviews a judge's ruling throwing out limits on the public's right to participate in forest decisions.

However, a forest protection group that won the ruling contended Friday that the Forest Service has gone far beyond the intent of the ruling and appears to be intentionally holding up trivial projects.

"The reason we sued over this, was this allowed them to put in a 250-acre clearcut, an off-road vehicle trail or a prescribed burn next to somebody's home and not allow them to comment on that," said Jim Bensman, forest watch coordinator for Heartwood in Alton, Ill.

Among the projects the Forest Service put on hold is cutting an 80-foot spruce in New Mexico to serve as a holiday tree on the grounds of the U.S. Capitol....

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Matt Kenna, a lawyer for the Western Environmental Law Center, said the plaintiffs have offered to work with the Forest Service to clarify what sorts of projects are covered by the ruling, but the Forest Service has refused....


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/10/01/AR2005100100980.html

[Vanje]

1. Heres what they'll say:

"There will be no Christmas this year because of the enviromentalists"

[niallmac]

2. The U.S. Grinch Service. n/t

[msongs]

3. USA "holiday tree" = waste of money and resources. end this project.

surely there is a better use for the money than chopping down a fine tree and dragging it to washington dc, draping it in cheap tdecorations and hauling away the carcass in January. What a rotten thing to do to a tree that has probably lived longer than anyone in this country.

Msongs
www.msongs.com/political-shirts.htm

[DeepModem Mom]

4. A valid point -- but the tree is only one small example...

of the obdurate pettiness shown by the Forest Service, and this administration, in this instance.

[Betsy Ross]

5. Remember the Turkey the * saved at Thanksgiving

He can turn this into an opportunity to save a tree!

[SpiralHawk]

6. Chimpy is NOT going to be deprived of his Xmas Tree

On that you can depend.

[depakid]

7. That's what you get when a timber company lobbyest

is placed in charge of the forest service.

Typical Republican pettyness and corruption.

[damntexdem]

8. So let the WH go without an Xmas tree this year.

We'll still supply little Dubya with all the low poll numbers he could ever want as an Xmas gift.