Government moves to conserve remote areas of national forest

  • 11/02/1999

Clinton Administration suspended the construction of logging roads in most of the underdeveloped back country of the national forests, decisively shifting forest policy toward conservation after a year of heated public debate. The move sets the stage for a broader review of long-term forest policy. The Administration will study not only remote areas affected by the suspension, but also other undeveloped areas excluded from the moratorium and the larger areas expanses crisscrossed by an estimated 400,000 miles of roads.