Posted on 06/29/2011 4:53:25 PM PDT by joeclarke
My brother out in California narrowly escaped from fires that were burning up hundreds of acres and houses north of Los Angeles a few years ago. He told me that environmental policies had prohibited the clearing of brush around his, as well as, his neighbors' houses, which, of course, helped escort out of control, raging fires up to his very doorstep. Thank God, his house was spared. Not so, other homeowners on the block.
Weeks after the fires, mudslides charged into the same area and floated several homes right off their foundations, because there was no brush to stop the mud flow. That was during the Bush administration. Under the Obama administration, environmentalists have attained even more of a czaric control over all things environmental. Forest Services, Departments of Natural Services, state EPAs and a myriad of public and private entities who, in effect, worship nature's superiority to man, have pledged to hinder the utilization of natural resources to the point of making human life independent of coal, gas, tree wood, nuclear energy, and oil.
Read here how Marxist Russian Lysenko was able to bring Soviet Communism to its knees through pseudo science.
Arizona, at this time, has suffered through a couple of wildfires claiming over 500,000 acres, 62 homes, and thousands of horses and cattle, and causing the evacuation of over 10,000 people. Many Arizonians are profaning "Bovine Scat" at EPA directed lawsuits, which have sought federal court help that prohibits logging, brush clearing, and cattle grazing on lands that have been intentionally converted into matchsticks.
The evil geniuses at the EPA may also be held responsible for the tens of thousands of acres now on fire, threatening to engulf the Los Alamos nuclear facility in New Mexico. The U.S. Forest Service, already inhabiting its share of extreme tree huggers, has become even more protective of forests by prohibiting tree thinning, thus protecting millions of acres of potential fire-starting kindling. Naturalists prefer "natural" burns to take down fire-starting forests, as opposed to manmade fires, which are deemed contrary to "natural forces" by naturalists (earth worshippers). They clearly do not want man involved in any sort of maintenance.
At one time, "controlled burns" were thought to be better than letting loggers take down trees for consumption, which would only benefit humans. This would cause Mother Earth Gaea to be sad, because, again, man would be interfering by striking a match to clear out trees that could potentially burn up people. The natural way is to wait for lightning or some other natural force to set the wood aflame.
Here is just one example of many:Measure to ease logging rules worries spotted-owl advocates, in New Mexico.
Someone once said that the difference between a Sierra Club member and a non member is that the Sierra Clubber has his cabin in the woods, but he doesn't want you to have yours.
I again say that the Tenth Amendment must be invoked. Arizona has the right to protect its citizens from dangers like this. When any other policies interfere with that, Arizona has the right to continue with its plan. We don’t need the EPA - let the states regulate themselves; they can sue each other if they have pollution problems with each other.
The enviro-whackos get to burn the candle at both ends, so to speak. They blame these fires on...
...wait for it...
Globak Warming.
All the pollutants from one of these fires, burning for weeks dwarfs the pollution we put out in a year...but the libs can’t grasp that.
Liberalism is the primary cause of environmental damage to the planet.
First on the agenda for the new president.
GET RID OF THE EPA.
We had the "smallest" large fire in AZ, "only" burning 30,576 acres as of 6 hours ago and is still burning although 93% contained. We had over 10K people evacuated in our town, alone.
The huge Wallow Fire up north that has become the largest in AZ history and is currently 538,849 acres. It's still burning and also 93% contained.
The Horseshoe 2 Fire burned 222,954 acres and is 100% contained, though also still burning.
The Thursday before the Sierra Vista fire exploded, I could see smoke from all 3 fires even though Wallow is about 200 miles away as the crow flies.
Let me tell you, they were clearing brush around here while this thing was hot!
Thank You, Lord, for yesterday's rain.
All info from http://www.inciweb.org/state/3/
What effect did the fire have on Ft. Huachuca?
They skimmed off a bunch of students to clear brush, killing the training schedule. They used soldiers as volunteers to clear brush off Post, but that was up to the individual soldiers.
A spark got away from a bulldozer and it burned 2500 acres on Post before they got it out.
Those who lived in the evacuation areas, of course were impacted.
It did burn high up in Garden Canyon, but that was as far West as it got on the North side of the Huachucas.
The air field hosted all the aircraft they used.
Unfortunately, the Post had implemented a quarantine of livestock because of that equine virus going around, so people didn’t have to option of evacuating their animals to the Post.
Didn’t impact the Post more than the locals.
I have to say that Sierra Vista and Fort Huachuca were magnificent in this crises. We emptied Wal-Mart, Target and the grocery stores of any number of items that the fire-fighters needed. I was told by a fire-fighter today that the people kept them in water and Gatorade and granola bars and they couldn’t have done it w/o us.
Thanks FrogMom!!
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