Bush Appeals Against Reinstatement of Roadless Rule

Environment News Service, April, 2007

WASHINGTON, DC (ENS) — --> The Bush administration today filed an appeal with the Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals challenging the court's February 7, 2007 judgment that affirmed the status of legal protections for inventoried roadless areas in national forests.

The notice of appeal, signed by U.S. Justice Department attorney Barclay Samford, was filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco. It gave no grounds for the appeal nor was the reasoning behind the appeal stated.

On September 20, 2006, Judge Elizabeth Laporte, Magistrate for the U.S. District Court for Northern California, ruled that the administration illegally repealed the Roadless Rule, issued in the final weeks of the Clinton administration that protected 58.5 million acres of inventoried...

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