Administrative Wilderness: Protecting Our National Forestlands in Contravention of Congressional Intent And Public Policy

摘要

Preservation of our forestlands has been a hotly contested issue over the last half century. Congress passed the Wilderness Act of 1964, granting it the exclusive power and authority of protect public lands as wilderness. At the behest of President Clinton, however, the Forest Service instituted an administrative rule-making process to Protect roadless public forestlands in a wilderness-like state. While Laudable in its aims, the forest Service's "roadless" rule usurped the Power and authority reserve in Congress under the Wilderness Act To create and set aside public lands as wilderness.