Who died and made Vilsack GOD?
Last Friday, President Obama’s Interior Secretary overturned a Bush-era forest plan that would have allowed thousands of acres of ancient-growth forest in Oregon to be clearcut. Greenpeace has been campaigning against the plan, called the Western Oregon Plan Revisions, since 2004.
That very same day, Obama’s Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack announced he had approved the use of taxpayer dollars to clearcut the ancient roadless forests in the Tongass National Forest of Southeast Alaska.
The Tongass is the crown jewel of America’s National Forests. It is the last great temperate rainforest in the U.S. and, in addition to the Alexander Archipelago wolf, the Tongass is home to grizzly bears, black bears, bald eagles, wolverines, black-tail deer, and timber wolves.
But the Obama administration’s reckless decision threatens more than just the Tongass it sets a dangerous precedent by allowing the first roadless area logging in the country since the Bush administration. By allowing chainsaws and road building in the Tongass, the Obama administration has drawn into question its commitment to protecting the future of 58 million acres of the last roadless wildlands in the United States.
From Greenpeace.org......
