Bush administration gives wild places the shaft

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By Carl Pope
Special to The Times
Carl Pope


After almost four years of an unprecedented assault on the wildest places in America, the Bush administration is pulling out the greenwashing brushes so that it can paint a more palatable picture of its environmental policies.

But you cannot simply gloss over the scope and magnitude of the Bush administration's assault on America's wild heritage. It's time for a reality check.

Since taking office, the Bush administration has opened up an area larger than Washington, Oregon and Montana combined to logging, mining and oil and gas drilling — including some of the nation's most environmentally sensitive places — stripping protections from 10 percent of America's public lands.

In a recent analysis on oil and gas development, The Washington Post pointed out "the administration's most enduring environmental legacy may lie here in the West, where a series of policy decisions and little-noticed administrative actions have eased development restrictions on millions of acres of federal lands."

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1. But... but... He's going to increase the Wetlands by 3 million

...lies