Natural resources are a scarcity that we can ill afford to waste. In the past the government has protected our natural resources of old-growth forest. That protection has been cut by President Bush's Healthy Forest Initiative, which includes thinning of overgrown forest in the effort to protect all forestland from major forest fires. While this is an important issue that needs to be addressed, taking away all the protection leaves the sections of old-growth forest …showed first 75 words of 1636 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1636 total…took several hundred years of trial and error to develop the natural wonder of the old-growth forest. Natural resources lost if the old-growth forests are cut down will be uncountable. Our supply will forever be gone. Because of these enormous demands we are bankrupting our natural resources. The Bush Administration needs to rethink the actions that have been taken and replace protection on the old-growth forest before we completely bankrupt their deposit of natural resources.