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Credit Pacific Service Union Every decade, each national forest is supposed to write a master plan to guide decisions about how to protect wildlife, provide for recreation, and manage grazing, timbering, and oil and gas drilling. The Bush administration has proposed changing how those plans are done, by reducing scientific data and limiting public input.

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Credit First Service Union At stake is whether the federal government will take a big-picture approach to conserving our public lands, or will let the national forests be carved up piecemeal without fully considering the cumulative harm done by various human activities.

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Card Credit Mobile Service The current rules, adopted 20 years ago by the Reagan administration, require forest supervisors to conduct an environmental impact statement before writing new management plans. The existing rules make the Forest Service seek broad public input and consider ecological, economic and social effects of its decisions.

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Card Credit Discover Service The system has flaws, certainly. It lets citizens who don't bother to file comments early in the process later stall the plans by appealing to higher-ups in the Forest Service. But the Forest Service itself often is the biggest roadblock to getting things done. The 1996 Rio Grande forest plan in Colorado was appealed by the timber industry and others, but the Forest Service took five years to respond.

Credit Public Service Union Instead of fixing such internal problems, the Bush team wants to eliminate the crucial requirement that the Forest Service conduct detailed environmental studies early in the planning process. Under the new rules, parts of the national forests would be "zoned" (the Bush administration's word) for oil drilling, timber sales and the like. Only when specific projects were proposed would the feds thoroughly look at potential ecological harm.

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Card Credit Processing Service But the term "zoning" implies a use by right, so the Forest Service could have a tough time saying "no" to certain activities even if later studies show grave environmental harm. For example, if parts of Colorado's high country are automatically "zoned" for oil and gas development, it may be impossible for the government to refuse drilling permits in critical wildlife habitat.

Center Credit Service Union The rules seem designed for the convenience of bureaucrats, not the public, allowing the Forest Service to chose when, where and how to accept public input. That loophole would make it easy for the government to ignore citizens critical of its actions.

Card Credit Service Wireless U.S. Sen. Jeff Bingaman, a New Mexico Democrat, scathingly critiqued the proposal. He questioned why this administration, unlike predecessors dating back to Reagan, refused to convene an independent committee of scientists to help revise the rules. The draft rule eliminates any assurance for protection of wildlife, doesn't set minimum standards for protecting rare species and doesn't require rigorous ecological studies.

Credit Security Service Union Bingaman's assessment is right on target: "It doesn't make any sense to postpone any real thought about the environmental effects of those (forest) plans until some unknown future date."

Denver Post - 12/8/2002

Topic: Forests & Trees