The Forest Service’s rulemaking process to protect 40 million to 54
million acres of roadless areas is “fatally tainted,” according to
Sen.
Larry Craig, R-Idaho, chairman of the Forests and Public Land Management
Subcommittee.
“I fear you have a rogue agency on your hands,” Craig told President
Clinton’s chief environmental advisor, George Frampton, at a March
30
hearing on the issue.
Craig predicted the administration ultimately will have to defend the
rulemaking, which Clinton …