Bush Pushes To Undo Clinton Forest Preservation In Sierras

SEQUOIA NATIONAL FOREST, CA - JULY 30: A dirt logging road cuts through a burned forest recovering from the massive McNally fire of July 2002 on July 30, 2004 in Sequoia National Forest in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of California. The Bush administration is pushing to undo a Clinton-era decision that put 58.5 million acres of national forests off-limits to development, especially in roadless areas. The new plan would allow the nation's governors to help decide whether roadless areas in their own states will be opened to logging or other commercial activities. U.S. forestry officials have announced that they want to quadruple the amount of logging allowed in the Sierra Nevada mountains in what they described as an effort to curb wildfires. California's 4 million acres of roadless forests represent about 4 percent of the state's land. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)