Word: roadless
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...controversy. It takes on urgency in view of the devastating fires and of Bill Clinton's roadless lands initiative, an all-but-done deal to ban further road-building on 43 million acres of national forest - Clinton's bid to be remembered as the greatest conservationist president since... Teddy Roosevelt...
...Conservationists expectedly take a view quite different from that of the timber folk and the myriad locals who see the roadless lands plan as clueless Washington authoritarianism shoved down the throats of the people who know what's really going...
...solution will be grindingly worked out. But the roadless lands plan is a basically good start. Always err on the side of the sacred. The profane will take care of itself...
...Galen Hamilton and others think that the Clinton roadless plan emanates from a mentality of simple-minded authoritarianism. Washington, they say, is dismissive of the informed views of the people who actually live on the land, and whose lives are most directly affected: whose school budgets are devastated and whose towns are likely to be closed down by the romantic, clueless environmentalism of elitist urbanites and ignorant pantheists...
...Galen Hamilton has his own, highly argumentative idea. Next time, I will offer the other side, the conservationist case in favor of the roadless lands...