jonessa2
08-10-2003, 09:47 PM
<span style='font-family:gungsuh'><span style='font-size:11pt;line-height:100%'><a href="http://story.news.yahoo.com /news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=1&u=/ap/20030810/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_forests" target="_blank">Sun, Aug 10, 2003 *
White House - AP *
Bush Promotes Forest-Thinning Initiative</a>
By SCOTT LINDLAW
CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush (news - web sites) surveys a fire-ravaged community in Arizona on Monday as part of a push to get the Senate to approve steps aimed at preventing catastrophic wildfires...
"When you don't do (thinning), you get moonscapes with matchsticks," Connaughton said in a telephone interview Sunday. "When you do the work right, you get thriving, natural forest that's got a nice, wide canopy."
Bush proposed his "Healthy Forests" initiative last year, and has implemented portions of it through new government rules. *more... (http://story.news.yahoo.com /news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=1&u=/ap/20030810/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_forests)</span></span>
White House - AP *
Bush Promotes Forest-Thinning Initiative</a>
By SCOTT LINDLAW
CRAWFORD, Texas - President Bush (news - web sites) surveys a fire-ravaged community in Arizona on Monday as part of a push to get the Senate to approve steps aimed at preventing catastrophic wildfires...
"When you don't do (thinning), you get moonscapes with matchsticks," Connaughton said in a telephone interview Sunday. "When you do the work right, you get thriving, natural forest that's got a nice, wide canopy."
Bush proposed his "Healthy Forests" initiative last year, and has implemented portions of it through new government rules. *more... (http://story.news.yahoo.com /news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=1&u=/ap/20030810/ap_on_go_pr_wh/bush_forests)</span></span>