美國布希政府計劃取消科羅拉多州國家森林區內440萬公頃無道路區域的合法保護法規，美國林務局26日正式宣佈，已針對科羅拉多無道路區域訂立新的管理規定。
各州無道路區域法規的制訂，是布希政府取代柯林頓時代「無道路法規」的產物，柯林頓政府的此項法規保護了美國5800萬公頃的無道路區域免於現代開發的破壞。
新的科羅拉多提案除了取消對30萬公頃野生林地的保護，也降低了對於其他410萬公頃的保護標準。
自然資源保護委員會高級政府分析員愛咪摩爾表示，布希政府在科羅拉多州的此項行動，將讓美國最原始的野生地區遭受工業開發的侵蝕，也是美國政府逐步在各州之間推翻公共林地保護法規的最新策略。
The Bush administration intends to remove existing legal protections from over 4.4 million acres of roadless areas in the national forests of Colorado. The U.S. Forest Service formally announced Wednesday that it is beginning a process to establish a new rule for managing Colorado's roadless areas.
The state-by-state roadless rulemaking process is a Bush administration replacement for the Clinton era Roadless Rule, that would have protected 58 million acres of inventoried roadless areas across the United States from development.
The Colorado proposal would remove roadless protections from approximately 300,000 acres of wild forestlands, and weaken them for the remaining 4.1 million acres.
"The Bush administration’s actions in Colorado will turn over some of America’s most pristine wildlands to industry exploitation," said Amy Mall, senior policy analyst with the Natural Resources Defense Council.
This is part of the administration’s latest strategy to erode, state by state, the protections that safeguard our public forests.
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