Any proposed regulations already sent to the Federal Register, but not yet published, also were withdrawn. And any regulations already published in the Register, but which have not yet taken effect, were put on a 60-day delay. The directive potentially affects the Forest Service's recent revision of its planning regulations and the order protecting 43 million acres of roadless national forest land from road building and development. It could stop the president's designation last week of national monuments at the Missouri River Breaks and Pompeys Pillar. He, for one, won't mind.
Collaboration means conspiring with the enemy.
We don't want to collaborate, we want to cooperate. That means to plant shrubs and rose bushes, but foresters want the public to believe landscape means a big wide area. Return as much authority as possible to district rangers, the former chief advised. Give people the money they need to do their jobs. Take the decision-making away from the courts.