USATODAY.com - Administration proposes changes to allow more logging

The Bush administration is proposing to give managers of the nation's 155 national forests greater leeway over logging and other commercial or recreational activities with little or no study of the potential damage to the environment.

"It's a blatant effort by the Bush administration to boost logging and help the timber industry, which had a clear hand on the pen of these regulations," said Robert Dewey, vice president of Defenders of Wildlife, an environmental advocacy group.