Globe Editorial
PRESIDENT Clinton's signal environmental accomplishment was an 11th-hour rule setting aside almost one-third of all National Forest Service acreage as forever roadless. A national forest area designated as roadless is not as protected as a wilderness area, which can be created only by an act of Congress, but roadless forests are spared the intrusion of heavy equipment used in logging, ... (Full article: 477 words)
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