a small Victory....from America to the U.S. Forest Service...(link)

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Keep fighting...don't give up !!!! (Paul Wellstone)

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WASHINGTON IN BRIEF

Friday, December 19, 2003; Page A06


For the Record

• The Forest Service is dropping a plan to ignore public comments from certain e-mail servers or on printed postcards. The agency said in the spring that it intended to bar "duplicative materials" such as mass e-mails, because they added little to debate over forest decisions.

But civil liberties groups and activists on both sides of forest issues complained that the move would thwart access to decision makers and diminish input on policy. A spokeswoman said the Forest Service never intended to shut the public out, but was abandoning the plan as a show of good faith.


http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A13377-2003Dec18.html

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1. A show of good faith.

A show -- that's the only form of good faith to expect from the Bushistas.