stickin' it to the man

It's fairly obvious that the Bush administration doesn't put the environment on their Top 10 Issues of Importance for America. Yesterday a federal court overturned the revised rules for management of our nation's national forests. Lawyer Tim Presto was quoted in the New York Times today saying, "Basically, the importance of this decision is that the Bush administration had been trying to take all mandatory environmental protections out of forest planning process and this decision puts them back in.” The previous rules cut back on requirements to help protect wildlife and forest ecosystems. The plans will be redone by the Agriculture Department upon consulting the public and other wildlife protection agencies.
It figures that the original rules cut back on any environmental reviews, yet gave overwhelming use of power to forest managers. Under the 2005 rules, forest managers were allowed to decide where it would be okay to development forest land. What do forest managers know about ecosystems, or how their development could destroy them. And even more so, what do they care? They don't, and clearly the Bush administration doesn't either. Development means money and money talks, allowing the Bush administration to sleep at night. And let's face it, anything that will allow Mr. Bush to continue getting his ten hours of sleep a night works for him.