Nearly one-third of forests owned by the US government will be protected
under regulations announced by President Bill Clinton last week. The new rules
ban road building and logging in nearly 25 million hectares of forest land
across the country. But the energy, timber and mining industries are attacking
the measures as too restrictive, and Republicans in Congress are already urging
President-elect Bush to reverse the ruling once he takes office later this
month.
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