[wheelgunguru]

Much of the problem area is on private and Indian land. What about them?

[Lunatic Fringe]

Nothing like shutting the door of a burning barn once the horse has run into it....

[cake_crumb]

Gee, that's mighty leaderly of them. If they'd done something like this ten years ago, the fires in CA wouldn't be this bad.

[frithguild]

http://www.henko.net/Music/MontyPythonsongs.php#LumberjackSong

[sd-joe]

The Indians keep telling us that they are a sovereign nation.

I guess we must just leave them alone to solve their own forest problems.

You know that they were perfect in handling the environment, before the nasty white man came. /sarcasm

Besides with all the money they are pulling in from the Casinos, they can replace those burnable wood trees with solid gold statues of trees.

[Southack]

"We don't want to step one sawtooth toward the House bill, or the forests will really be in trouble," said Jay Watson, director of wild lands and fire programs for the Wilderness Society in California.

Supporters of the bill rejected the environmentalists' criticism.

"For those who have been so worried that we're going to log the forests to death, they have watched them burn to death," said Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M. "It's high time we fix it."

[Dr Warmoose]

"This finally opens the door to significant land management reforms,"

Praise God that some of our congress-critters are waking up and smelling the burning forests!

I would like to see a breakdown on that $2.9 billion to see what percentage of that has absolutely nothing to do with the government's unconstitutional role in reforming their mismanagement of their unconstitutional ownership and control over forest land. Certainly many polticians voted for this only after liberal palm greasing.