Bush revokes the roadless area conservation rule

An Op-Ed piece in the New York Times describes how the Bush Administration has repealed a Clinton era rule banning new road development on 60 million acres (or about 1/3 of the total) of national forest land. This move contrasts well with the Bush Administration's other decision to put $10 million into enlarging the ivory-billed woodpecker's habitat, a species that has made recent appearances in Arkansas and that had not been seen since 1944.