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We are going to get this:

Bush Plan Opens More Forests to Logging

Thursday July 1, 2004 9:46 PM

By MATTHEW DALY

Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON (AP) - Governors would have to petition the federal government to
block road-building in remote areas of national forests under a Bush
administration proposal to boost logging.

Environmentalists say the proposed rule change, outlined this week in the
Federal Register, would signal the end of the so-called roadless rule, which
blocks road construction in nearly one-third of national forests as a way to
prevent logging and other commercial activity in backcountry woods.

Without a national policy against road construction, forest management would
revert back to individual forest plans that in many cases allow roads and
other development on most of the 58 million acres now protected by the
roadless rule, environmentalists say.

``Basically I think this proposal takes away protections on a national
level'' against road-building and logging, Robert Vandermark, co-director of
the Heritage Forest Campaign, said Thursday. He and other environmentalists
said it is unlikely that governors in pro-logging states would seek to keep
the roadless rule in effect.
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http://www.guardian.co.uk/uslatest/story/0,1282,-4267059,00.html


When we could have had this intead:

"All over the Pacific Northwest one can see the effects of the massive
deforestation that�s been taking place out there during the past 20 years.
Whole valleys and mountainsides have been clear-cut - stripped of all plant
life - to meet our insatiable demand for fiber, paper and wood. So when High
Times learned that Bill Conde, a longtime hemp activist who once ran for
governor of Oregon, was researching making an alternative to plywood
utilizing hemp, we decided to look into it.

What immediately stands out when going to see Conde is the huge billboard
for Conde�s Redwood Lumber on the side of Interstate 5, just outside of
Harrisburg, Oregon. On one side of the company name is a giant green
marijuana leaf and on the other side is an American flag inside a peace
sign. In the heart of lumber country, the lumber industry is talking about
planting hemp and converting to it as a primary source of fiber. Credit goes
largely to Conde, David Seber and Barry Davis, partners in the research and
development company called C & S, the company at the forefront in research
on hemp use for fiber. HT met with Conde and Seber - Davis was unavailable -
to find out what progress they�ve made in developing a substitute for
clear-cutting old-growth forest."
http://www.globalhemp.com/Archives/Magazines/conde.html

http://www.hemp4fuel.com/nontesters/hemp4fuel /