Court upholds Clinton-era ban on forest road-building
Friday, October 21, 2011 - 20:00
in Mathematics & Economics
The judges' decision is strong enough, experts say, that it probably spells an end to the protracted legal battle over the 2001 rule for nearly 50 million acres of public land.A federal appeals court Friday upheld a Clinton administration rule that bans road-building and logging on roughly a quarter of the country's national forestland.