However, what is not discussed in the full story is that the Forest Service was prohibited from taking actions like thinning and logging due to endless lawsuits from environmental groups claiming endangered species protections were needed for the northern spotted owl, a field mouse and various other flora and fauna. The anger of the affected residents should also be directed at those groups who continually shrill for money while making little progress in their goals but end up displacing jobs and people from making a living.
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In nearly two dozen Searchlight New Mexico interviews with people affected by the Calf Canyon/Hermits Peak fire, the same sentiments emerge: The USFS has a history, locals argue, of mismanaging the forest. In particular, they say the agency has limited or prohibited people from the long-held tradition of collecting firewood and other timber, the kind of maintenance the forest needed. If they had been able to tend to it the way they had for generations, they believe the conflagration would have been far less devastating.
They ruin everything they touch..
“However, what is not discussed in the full story is that the Forest Service was prohibited from taking actions like thinning and logging due to endless lawsuits from environmental groups claiming endangered species protections were needed for the northern spotted owl, a field mouse and various other flora and fauna. The anger of the affected residents should also be directed at those groups who continually shrill for money while making little progress in their goals but end up displacing jobs and people from making a living.”
Several years ago, out west the Forest Service had been tied up in court for years trying to get a burn permit. This allowed excess fuel to accumulate on the forest floor. They finally got a burn permit but the weather for the entire time was too windy to use it. Finally, it was down to a day or so left on the permit and then it would have been back to court for the next five years. The weather that day was marginal but because of how the fuel accumulation might look in another five years when they next got a permit, they decided to risk it and start the burn. The weather changed back to windy, and it was the worst fire in decades. All blamed on the Forest Service, of course.
Bkmk
Someone tell me again why the management of that trust should not be taken away from the federal government and turned back to the local counties or states..
Come on, explain to me that the local communities should not be the sole administrator of that trust of those lands.
NATIONWIDE!!!
All Federal land that is not needed for National Defense and present National Parks should be turned over to the states.
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I have nothing good to say about government, especially in regard to forest ‘management’.