Copyright 2000 The Houston Chronicle Publishing Company
The Houston Chronicle
August 16, 2000, Wednesday 3 STAR EDITION
SECTION: A; Pg. 32
LENGTH:
152 words
HEADLINE: SAVING TONGASS;
Alaskan forest
should be protected from new roads
SOURCE: Staff
BODY:
President Clinton should include Alaska's
Tongass National Forest in a new, soon-to-be-decided policy he is expected to
sign in November to protect roadless areas in our country's
national forests.
The president's policy would protect the remaining
roadless areas of all national forests, with the exception of
the Tongass, which is the world's largest remaining temperate rainforest.
Houston-area U.S. Reps. Ken Bentsen, Gene Green and Sheila Jackson Lee, all
Democrats, have joined 144 House members in a letter to the president urging him
to protect the remaining roadless areas in the Tongass.
Taxpayers lose
at least $ 27 million a year on timber sales from the Tongass. New roads cost
taxpayers and cause terrible environmental damage.
President Clinton
should save the Tongass and its old-growth forest from new roads and costly
logging and spare taxpayers from additional wasteful spending.
TYPE: Editorial Opinion
LOAD-DATE: November 21, 2000 
