Salvage logging wounded but not dead
In his first veto, President Clinton derailed a plan
to double salvage logging over the next two years and exempt
livestock grazing on national forests from environmental laws. The
Rescissions Bill combined $16.4 billion in cuts, mostly from
existing social programs, as well as $7.3 billion from aid to
Oklahoma City and areas in California hit hard by flooding.
Environmental groups celebrated what may be a brief victory: Senate
Appropriations Committee Chairman Mark Hatfield, R-Ore., says he
will oppose any attempt to drop the emergency salvage provision
from a new bill - Rick
Keister