Forestry Chief Says Road Ban Will Start

Forest Service Chief Dale Bosworth assured members of a Senate committee Tuesday that a sweeping ban on road-building on a third of the nation’s forests will take effect Saturday, even as the administration works to revise the rule.

The administration announced Friday that it would implement the Clinton-era policy that would prohibit logging and road-building, except in rare circumstances, on 58.5 million acres of federal forests. But the administration also promised it would amend the rule to allow more local influence on the process.