U.S. District Judge James Singleton is part of the problem.
The clever Sierra Club lawyers find weak, emotional Judges to delay any decision long enough for most of the economic value of a beetle killed, wind blown down tree to be turned into smoke.
This is not your father's Sierra Club. Some of its leadership positions are held by activists with radical ties and even violent criminals. The Club has done well preserving a "mainstream" image, despite its increasingly radical bent.
The Club’s new extremist priorities are best illustrated in the person of animal-rights extremist Paul Watson, elected to the Sierra Club's board of directors in 2003.
Watson founded the ultra-radical Sea Shepherd Conservation Society (SSCS) in 1977 after being booted from Greenpeace (which he also co-founded) for espousing violence in the name of the environment.
Watson and his Sea Shepherd pirates sail the high seas, terrorizing the fishing industry by sinking ships and endangering lives.
"I got the impression that instead of going out to shoot birds, I should go out and shoot the kids who shoot birds," says Watson ...
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