Yes....and, what you DON’T hear about is how the Federal Fire Watchers let tens of thousands of acres burn up while they shipped in “type 1” teams from around the country....even a lowboy with a grader on it from frikkin’ FLORIDA showed up....while they IGNORED the pleas of local loggers, etc. to be hired on to actually FIGHT the fires in terrain they know like the back of their hands....grrrr.....!!!!
And, you CERTAINLY don’t hear about all the bears, deer, and other wildlife which were toasted in the “nature preserving” fires from the eco-twits that glorify all that destruction....DO you....??? No, they are SAVING the bears.
For WHAT...the next giant barbecue...???
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The item you mentioned about hiring fire crews DID happen...but, ONLY after several hundred pissed off, experienced, fire fighters and loggers held a protest at the County Fair Grounds for the benefit of Senator Burns and Governor Martz. In the mean time I could hardly breathe [literally] and waited for the fires to come over Big Mountain.
By the way, for those who think I’m just grousing...it’s a FACT that my friend Scott Daumiller [planer superintendent at a saw mill] and myself spearheaded the SUCCESSFUL re-opening of USFS road #316 which runs along the back of Big Mountain and was scheduled for destruction. It is the ONLY fire access road for 50 square miles directly North of Whitefish toward the Canadian border. Since 2000, we’ve had at least three MAJOR forest fires, each turning to dust over 50,000 acres in that region and all of which jumped the Flathead River at some point into Glacier National Park...where absolutely NOTHING is done to contain them.
That’s your federal government and YOUR tax dollars hard at work for you, folks....!!!
[Yeah, you struck a NERVE]
JB, I’m happy to listen to you. I don’t know 1/4th what you do about the situation and am certainly open to being updated/corrected/redirected.
All I said (I think?) is that people in Montana, Wyoming, and Utah were telling me there were more bears out that year than was normal, because of the very dry winter/spring, and the resulting fires up in the mountains where they normally feed during the summer. That’s all I’m saying, period.
I am not by any means having an argument with you, because there’s nothing for me to argue. So please stop with the combative attitude and the YELLING WITH CAPITAL LETTERS. It’s just not necessary.
Thank you.