Forest Service to tout Sierra plan to prevent serious fires

Mercury News ^ | 1/22/04 | Don Thompson - AP

[NormsRevenge]

SACRAMENTO - The U.S. Forest Service plans to market a forest-thinning plan in the Sierra Nevada range as necessary to prevent devastating wildfires like those that swept Southern California last fall.

Regional Forester Jack Blackwell was to announce Thursday the final version of a controversial revision of a Clinton administration plan for managing 11.5 million acres spanning 11 national forests.

[NormsRevenge]

Ping

[Reelect President Dubya]

It is a sin to harvest trees.

We must allow dead biomass to accumulate until it explodes.

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.
Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from this list.
I don't get offended if you want to be removed.

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If this is taxes with reprsentation
Give me taxes without representation
I much prefer a tax on tea!
Instead of everything else.

[Leatherneck_MT]

What we need to do is sue the Enviro-nazi's

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[Carry_Okie]

Let's see, group selection logging, thinning and fuel breaks. Sounds exactly like the Herger/Feinstein Quincy Library Group plan that passed congress in 1994 (with a House vote of 429 to 1). So, with nearly unanimous support, why hasn't that plan been implemented? For the same reason NOTHING will be done in the Sierra Nevada until the people realize the government forest management will NEVER work OR until a few enterprising folks figure out how to take it from them.

Anybody interested in that possiblity should start with the necessary education. There is an alternative; and it starts with private property.

[forester]

For the same reason NOTHING will be done in the Sierra Nevada...

Ahh come on, burning it to a crisp employs lots of people. Remember, where there is smoke, there is money :0)