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THURSDAY, AUGUST 22, 2002

President Bush and Secretary of Interior Gale Norton are announcing changes in forest management policy.

The pair are in Oregon today to ask Congress to relax environmental laws. The changes will allow greater logging of timber in national forests in order to reduce the threat of fire.

Congress has been drafting similar proposals for forest thinning. Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle (D-S.D.) included a provision in a spending bill to exempt the Black Hills National Forest from environmental laws.

Forest thinning has long been a policy of tribes with timber assets.

Get the Story:
Bush tries to loosen rules on logging (The Seattle Post-Intelligencer 8/22)
Bush seeks to ease rules of Northwest forest management (The Seattle Times 8/22)
Forest plan fuels debate (The Denver Post 8/22)
Bush Forest-Management Plan Is Designed to Curb Fire Hazards (The Denver Post 8/22)
Forest thinning has Bush support (The Washington Times 8/22)
Martz: Ban logging appeals (The Billings Gazette 8/22)
Bush, Citing Fires, Will Seek to Ease Laws on Logging (The New York Times 8/22)
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Bush seeks fast track to thinning of forests (The Arizona Republic 8/22)
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Relevant Documents:
Department of Interior Fire Presentation (August 2002)

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Bill to speed up tribal timber sales (8/21)