Environmental Mischief
The LA Times (registration required) is running a story about the Bush administration’s ‘victory’ in Congress yesterday. The Administration was heavily promoting the restoration of Snowmobiles to Yellowstone and Grand Teton National Parks.
While allowing motorized recreation in National Parks is pretty bad. The article buries some of the other environmental shenanigans the House Republicans pulled off. Here is some of the article:
Snowmobile use in the parks would have been phased out by next winter under a Clinton administration plan. But the Bush administration proposed new rules allowing the vehicles to enter the parks daily but setting standards for noise and pollution and limiting them to park trails.
And in another victory for President Bush, the chamber voted to uphold administration plans to allow development on some of the 58 million acres of federal forests where road building has been banned since the closing days of the Clinton administration.
The votes were among several triumphs for the White House as the Republican-led House debated a bill providing $19.6 billion for the Interior Department and other federal land and cultural programs next year. The overall measure was approved Thursday night by a vote of 268 to 152.
The House also rejected efforts to ban bear baiting — luring bears with food so they can be shot — on public lands, and to forbid federal funds from being used to kill bison that leave Yellowstone.
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