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washingtonpost.com - 1/4/2009
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LOS ANGELES -- The Bush administration appears poised to push through a change in U.S. Forest Service agreements that would make it far easier for mountain forests to be converted to housing subdivisions.
washingtonpost.com - 1/6/2009
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U.S. Forest Policy Is Set to Change, Aiding Developer
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... landowner. The shift is technical but has large implications. It would allow Plum Creek Timber to pave roads through Forest Service land. For decades, such roads were little more than trails used by logging trucks to reach timber stands. But as Plum Creek has moved into the real estate business, paving those roads became a necessary prelude to opening vast tracts of the company's 8 million acres to the vacation homes that are transforming landscapes across the West. Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/20...
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