21.  Still, conflict over land management is expected to continue, particularly in roadless areas that are as highly prized by the timber industry as by wildlife biologists.

22.  That category of roadless areas would restrict a wide variety of activities, chiefly the construction of new roads.

23.  The administration has been steadily weakening the roadless area protection policy.

24.  The administration has flunked the first big test of its pledge to protect roadless areas of the national forest system from logging and other commercial development.

25.  The Clinton administration plans to prevent construction of logging roads in the few remaining roadless areas of national forests.

26.  The event was orchestrated to pressure the Bush administration, which in July signaled it might soften the ban on logging, mining and other development in roadless areas.

27.  The Pacific Rivers Council has called for broader stream protections, especially in roadless areas that provide the bulk of pristine habitat for salmon and other fish and wildlife.

28.  The roadless areas represent less than one-third of national forest land.

29.  They called for adding to it more restrictions to protect streamside areas and roadless areas that are important to salmon preservation.

30.  They could object to the noise of chain saws, logging trucks, or helicopters flying logs out of roadless areas.