too many trees per acre , closed historical dirt roads that could be used to fight the massive fires faster and safer, government weenies who love endless studies, eco lawyers who get paid large fees, and
Trees just burning up, doing no one any good. Homes destroyed, firefighters killed, millions of dollars burned up along with it all.
Forest policy has ruined our forests, nature has been thwarted and now nature is fighting back.
We’ve known this was going to happen for 20 years but the environmentalists won the PC war and now taxpayers are paying for their self-righteous mistakes. It isn’t over, not by a long shot, there are a few out there that haven’t burned yet and they will sometime or another.
What a waste....
I used to log on the Idaho side of the divide back in the ‘70’s. The DNR/logger relationship has always been adversarial.
There ia a building coalition of retiree forest service management types, scientists, county government, wildfire specialists, timber interests that will be meeting in mid-July to strategize how to reverse the insane trend of re-wilding, let it burn, single species management, EAJA etc.
The House Natural Resources Committee has been doing a good job with public hearings on the topic. They have been thwarted by the Senate. Nothing can get through them and the Administration’s policies are getting worse and worse.
The extreme environmentalists are killing our Forests and destroying rural counties. http://users.sisqtel.net/armstrng/
Name a single republican that has tried to change the Forest sErvice by WORKING to get a bill passed that would fix what is borken. We can study the entire world via NASA but not how to manage a forest. We have not had this many annual 10,000 acre forest fires year after year since the Sierra Club stopped logging in America’s forests.
Name a single republican that has tried to change the Forest service by WORKING to get a bill passed that would fix what is broken. We can study the entire world via NASA but not how to manage a forest. We have not had this many annual 10,000 acre forest fires year after year since the Sierra Club stopped logging in America’s forests.
The forecast is somewhat calm tonight but windy for the next few days on this part of the Range. I don’t know anything about the forecast for the high plains.
We need to get rid of the forest service and auction off that land to the private sector.
Would seem that the US Forestry Service supports global warming through its policy of banning logging but encouraging those conditions that trigger uncontrolled wildfires. As one idiot in Yellowstone stated “although the forests were burned, the heat produced was sufficient to make the pine cones release their seeds ..... that’s how the forest would regenerate”. Now that’s as if the pine cones would not release there seeds without wildfires. As several experts have said, the greatest disaster to ever hit the National Parks and Forests has been the US Forestry and Park Services.
Forest Service management plans fail to protect the vital nutrients in the forest soil from dangerous fuel levels that lead to extremely hot fires that vaporize vital nutrients in the forest soil. If the vital nutrients necessary for healthy forests were protected, periodic thinning would be required to limit dangerous fuel levels. Destroying vital nutrients destroys habitat for all species of plants and animals.
by design, the leftest’s thrive in a world of scarcity.