31.  Those roadless areas not made wilderness were to be considered for timbering, she says.

32.  To their distress, Mealey planned thinning in roadless areas that were proposed for wilderness designation.

33.  Tuesday, Gore addressed both complaints, saying that he would bar logging as well as road building in the roadless areas.

34.  Under the guise of eliminating redundancies in the conservation rules, the Forest Service is attempting to open roadless areas to logging.

35.  Worse yet, here in Georgia, state fish and wildlife officials, who should want more natural resources preservation, oppose more roadless areas.

36.  Yet language approved by the House of Representatives would push sales toward roadless areas by ordering a doubling of salvage harvests regardless of cost.

37.  Bosworth wants to ensure that people who live in remote places and know about roadless areas have a voice in crafting the policy.

38.  But should the roadless areas need to be thinned, Forest Service spokeswoman Jennifer Plyler said, the ban would mean that helicopters typically would have to be used.

39.  Craig cited Forest Service figures showing two-thirds of agency lands that burned in the West were wilderness and roadless areas.

40.  Environmentalists hope the new version will include an outright ban on logging in roadless areas.