[Grampa Dave]

GW pays a surpise Halloween visit to an overgrown forest after the Senate okays sanity versus Enviral Green Lunacy in management of our forests!

[Grampa Dave]

Lets hope the above will become just a nightmare of what the Watermelon Jihadists did to America's forests.

[blackie]

GWB is the man!

[forester]

Great picture. Even better would be to put W in a Timbco feller buncher like this one on the left

These machines have become the thinning tool of choice for smaller trees on relatively gentle ground. The boom reaches out about ten feet, grabs the tree at the base, and saws it off. The machine then picks up the entire tree and lays it down, usually in piles of five to eight trees. A rubber tired grapple skidder then drags the piles to the landings, where the limbs are removed and the top severed. Some of the companies are then running the limbs and tops through a chipper and hauling out the chips for use as fuel to generate power.

The resulting impact to the land is minimal, and the health of the thinned forest improved dramatically. We have the technology, all we need is the political will to use it!

[dixiechick2000]

Thanks so much for the ping, Gramps.

While I am very glad to see that this was finally passed, I am so sorry so many had to lose their homes and, in some cases, their lives.

My prayers are with the good folks in southern California.