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Roadless rule for national forests will return
Washington-AP -- Good news for environmentalists. The Bush administration won't renew a rule allowing some road-building in remote areas of national forests. That decision effectively reinstates a Clinton-era rule blocking development on 58 (m) million acres of federal land. That's nearly a third of the nation's forests.
Environmentalists say the decision strengthens the rule upheld by a federal appeals court.
A spokesman for the timber industry is playing it down, saying no new roads were built in national forests under the interim rule.
An Agriculture Department spokesman says the administration plans to develop a permanent set of guidelines for roadless areas once the interim rule expires June 14th.
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