| Editorial: The administration last week released a sweeping report recommending many useful steps for conserving, even expanding, America's open spaces but the House Republicans reduced financing for this year to less than one-third that amount and added one amendment which would prevent the Bureau of Land Management from recommending permanent wilderness protections for public land..making them more accessible to the American people. Their budget resolution and the destructive amendments attached to it challenged the very premise of the report -- that protecting wild lands from commercial development is essential to a nation's physical and emotional health. |
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