Last year, when the US Forest Service revised its rule for developing Land and Resource Management Plans, it was upbeat about the ramifications for the national forests and grasslands. The agency had just completed an environmental impact statement (EIS) on the updated rule, which it had been ordered by a court to prepare in 2007.
…Michael Francis, acting vice-president of the Wilderness Society and director of that association’s national forest program, said the society prefers the 1982 rule.