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[Guillermo]

More than 700,000 acres have burned so far this year in California alone; 20 people have died and 2,600-plus homes been destroyed. Last year, wildfires burned nearly 7 million acres, killed 23 firefighters, destroyed more than 800 homes and cost taxpayers over $1.5 billion.

Dontcha just love it when a plan comes together?

[crz]

I wanna see them "thin" a fir forest that grows on those slopes. As a logger, I wouldnt set one foot on these stands to take my life in my hands for the prices they pay for that wood to "thin" it. Strip cutting is another matter. But to select "thin" harvest? Forget it! Let it burn or cut it the way it should be cut and replant.

[hotpotato]

We no longer support the Sierra Club.

[cwb]

How ironic that the people who want to save the forests are the ones responsible for its total destruction...not to mention the pollution that is spewed into the atmosphere. These are the same people who campaign for log-free fireplaces, while the West goes up in flames.

[farmfriend]

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[doug from upland]

GREAT PIECE BY DR. BILL WATTENBURG.

[crz]

Here is another little interesting tidbit for those of you from Cal who got the luxury of breathing that smoke from those fires. The top layers of the ground that burned have been layered with mercury and other pollutents over the years. So when that fire burned, it released those toxic things into the air so you could all breath it. Now if they would have let the loggers go in and log those areas that are viable to log, building road to access those areas to log would have provided a road system for fire fighters to access. OBTW...these pollutents will continue to be released through the washing off of these lands by rain into the water systems.

[Gritty]

Thinning forests works

Tell that to the Sierra Club.

Probably the only way they might agree to this sort of management is if only government employees (aka government environmentalists) cut the trees and then disposed of them without profit or commercial uses. Of course, these programs would cost billions of tax dollars but would employ many thousands of tree-hugging college graduates.

To let commercial loggers do it and make a dime for their trouble? Fuggettaboudit!

[crz]

Read this.

http://forests.org/archive/general/forfirsm.htm

[T Lady]

"A spokesperson for the Natural Resources Defense Council called President Bush's proposed plan of preventing forest fires by thinning growth a "Trojan Horse" to sneak in logging projects."

...Absolutely stunning. I just hope these morons' homes weren't threatend by any of the fires last week. I'm also glad to report that the Senate, including CALIFORNIA'S two Senators-yes, shocking,isn't it?!-actually voted to pass the aboved proposed measure the night before last. Who was it that said even a blind squirrel finds an acorn? But I'm quite certain Barbara Boxer's Enviro-Nut pals, including the NRDC are none too pleased with her vote.

-Regards, T.

[randog]

If I lost a home in the fire I'd be thinking about a class-action suit against any and all enviro groups that sued to keep the forests from being cleaned up. They're the ones that created the hazardous situation that resulted in the tragic loss of life and property. Defunding the left is the only way to get them under control.