[cake_crumb]

"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."

Hear, hear. The most heavily logged states in the Union are also the most heavily forested. In addition, these same states have the least devestating wildfires and healthiest forests. This is not an accident. This is forestry management. According to the environazis' "wisdom" such states should have run out of trees a long time ago.

[meenie]

The secret to the problem lies in opening up the forests to a round of homesteading and privatizing. Private people take care of property, federal officials never take care of their responsibilities.