Liberals in Congress destroy the concept of ‘land of many uses’ to land of no use. There are about 3 million acres pending now ?
Liberals inside the forest service also manage public lands ‘as if’ Congress had acted. The local forest beaurocrazies close off public access even before their liberal friends in Congress act.
Here is a shocker for you. About a month ago, I was at a meeting with the new Chief of the Forest Service. The question was asked: “Are we no longer in the business of harvesting timber from federal lands?”
Chief Kimbell replied that it was “no longer the focus of management and was just another function.” She explained that the “public” said that it wanted a “bigger picture” for how the National Forest was managed and the end product condition of that process. Removal of logs, biomass and wildfires were now only a part of the “treatment” of the Forests. Timber and wood products were “no longer a primary focus of the Forest.” She said that recent court decisions have reinterpreted various federal laws such as NEPA (National Environmental Policy Act) and NFMA (National Forest Management Act) as an expression of “social license.” The Chief stated that we “lack the social license to put a chainsaw into the National Forest.”