Bush defends forest plan as 'common sense' policy

  • 21/12/2001

President Bush set the stage for a showdown with Congress on curbing Western wildfires by moving to speed up timber-cutting projects in overgrown national forests. The president's most controversial proposal would bar citizen appeals and lawsuits challenging such logging. U.S. President George W. Bush is greeted by firefighter David Goodnough as he tours the Squires Mountain fire site in Ruch, Oregon.