Trouble in the Forests.

Comments on the efforts of the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush to alter rules protecting the national forests against commercial exploitation. Forest Service's decision to weaken agreements aimed at preserving old-growth trees and wildlife in the Pacific Northwest and in the Sierra Nevada; Threat to overturn former President Bill Clinton's roadless rule protecting the most remote areas of the forests; Administration's call for radical overhaul of the rules governing the management of the nation's 155 national forests; Possible elimination of vital environmental reviews.