Sentences with phrase «prevent additional land»

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Besides working for eight years to overturn the Clinton administration's «Roadless Rule» that prevented road building (and the logging that usually follows) on 58.5 million acres of national forests, the Bush White House has opened up 45 million additional acres of public land across the American West to oil and gas drilling during its tenure.

One example is improving yield on lands already deforested to produce crops, thereby preventing additional deforestation driven by increasing demand for arable land.