The U.S.Forest Service unveiled in December its landmark update to the 1976 National Forest Management Act after years of hard work and public comment.The new regulations are Part II of President Bush's promise to "fix" our broken forest system-the first being the Healthy Forest Act passed by a bipartisan Congress in 2003.The new rules inject some modern science into a creaky law,finally giving local forest managers thee ability to respond quickly and flexibly to emerging forest threats.
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