12. SENATORS BLAST FRAMPTON ON ROADLESS ACRES PROCESS
The Forest Service’s rulemaking process to protect 40 million to 54
million acres of roadless areas is “fatally tainted,” according to
Sen.
Larry Craig, R-Idaho, chairman of the Forests and Public Land Management
Subcommittee.
“I fear you have a rogue agency on your hands,” Craig told President
Clinton’s chief environmental advisor, George Frampton, at a March
30
hearing on the issue.
Craig predicted the administration ultimately will have to defend the
rulemaking, which Clinton …