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White House Bans New Wilderness Roads for a Year

By | 05.28.09 | 4:21 pm

One of the Bush administration’s many efforts to hobble the nation’s environmental protections occurred in 2005, when President George W. Bush lifted a Clinton-era ban on new road-building on nearly 58 million acres of isolated forest and grassland.

Today, the Obama administration reinstated for one year the so-called More…