Bush proposes less restrictions on logging in fire-prone forest
Friday, August 23, 2002
RUCH, Ore. -- President Bush, on a mountain peak blighted by wildfire, crumbled the dead black bark of a Douglas fir in his palm and challenged environmentalist critics of his new forest initiatives: "Come and stand where I stand."
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