Word: roadless
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...argument over roadless lands is thus framed in vastly different perspectives of time. Opponents--off-road-vehicle enthusiasts, hunters, fishermen, loggers, miners and organized labor (which cites the loss of jobs)--do not speculate centuries in advance. They want use of the land now. In the American Southeast, debate focuses on more than 5 million acres of national forests--625,000 acres designated as roadless--that harbor some of the last vestiges of America's primeval woodlands, including some of the oldest forests in the world...
...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 has his own, highly argumentative idea. Next time, I will offer the other side, the conservationist case in favor of the roadless lands...