Obama administration unveils forest management plan
Friday, January 27, 2012 - 01:01
in Earth & Climate
It is an attempt to balance competing interests of industry and conservation groups, replacing a framework that has long been at the center of legal battles.Collaboration and a greater reliance on science are the keys to the Obama administration's new guidelines in managing about 193 million acres of national forest and juggling the competing interests of industry and conservation groups.