This is all about “Beatle Kill” and the fact that the environazis wouldn’t allow clear, clean and re-plant and or an effective spraying program to kill the Pine Beatle.
The Feds are responsible for the fires more than anything else:
1. Removal of animals from their long-standing grazing permits on Federal land, where the cattle & goats eat the lower ground fuels & help prevent lightning started fires from gaining a foothold into the shrubs & trees. These grazing permits are long standing & are paid for by the cattlemen. ALL fencing, enhancement of water sources,etc are also done & paid for by the cattlemen. Wildlife benefit from such water sources, also. Therefore, hunters benefit & the costs to the hunters of tags to allow them to hunt benefit the area, along with the products purchased from Cabela’s, Scheel’s, Dick’s, etc.
2. Total FAILURE of the Obama administration to authorize the purchase & use of numerous planes which are outfitted for fire fighting. 7 (only) such planes were finally authorized by Obama just about 10 days ago——long after New Mexico and Colorado & other places have suffered from such fires being totally out of control. One C-130 crashed in S Dakota last week. So- Obama immediately grounds the entire fire fighting fleet ‘until we know why is crashed’. Airplanes crash every day!!!!! NO ONE grounds the entire commercial airline industry ‘until we know why it crashed’!!!!!!
3. Clinton & Babbitt-—who created ‘roadless’ policies within the boundaries of Federally controlled land, particularly in the states west of the Mississippi. Fire equipment, trucks, men, etc, cannot get into the fire areas to fight a fire when it is small. The ‘roads’ have been padlocked off & in many cases, huge holes were backhoed into the roads, making passage of equipment impossible. When the only way to get to a small fire is to WALK in or to PARACHUTE in, like the “HOTSHOTS” do, then the fire gets a real head start.
4. Refusal of the Feds to control the bark beetles & to allow removal of downed trees from areas already burned. Such timber has a somewhat useful value for about 2 years, but the Feds & the Greenies have joined together to prevent any such logging of ‘downed trees’. Therefore, such downed trees become targets for more bark beetles & the dry, damaged timber becomes fuel for a worse fire. Such downed trees are plainly visible on the south side of Interstate 80, just west of Reno, from a fire about 7 years ago.
5. The Feds & all their bureaus & departments are never on the same page. Their chronic infighting is harming all of the forests of the USA. One example???
The Washoe County Sheriff’s office (Reno, Nevada) has a multi-use helicopter called ‘Raven’. It can be used for pursuit & many other things, including dropping about 500 gallons of water at a time onto a fire. A fire this week in the south part of Reno was raging. The Raven helicopter could NOT be used to fight this fire because part of the fire was on or advancing onto NATIONAL PARK SERVICE holdings. The Raven has been authorized by the Feds to work where there is Bureau of Land Management (BLM) land, but the NPS still hasn’t granted authorization to Raven. The BLM authorization took over 2 years to obtain!!!!!! The permit process is still hovering at NPS!!!! Meanwhile, homes are threatened & fires are damaging watershed.
There is no answer that is acceptable from the Feds on this issue. NONE. They are bent on destroying more and more of the USA.
Guess what, politicians????
A burned out home isn’t creating any property tax base for you to spend foolishly!!!!