Interview: Changes in Forest Management Policy

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Just before he left office, President Clinton signed a law that put some 60 million acres of forest in the United States under federal control and off-limits to logging. Now President Bush is proposing to change those rules and give local control of those areas to the states where they’re located.

Dr. James Harding is a professor at Green Mountain College in Poultney and is an expert on management of public lands. He’s teaching a course this fall on the Adirondack Forest and says the Bush administration’s plan to return local control of forest areas to states is an illusory shift.

(To hear Mitch Wertlieb’s interview with Harding, click on the “Listen” icon.)

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