About time the feds devolved control back to the states. The next step should be turning ownership of these collectivist federal forests to the states who, in turn, can sell the forests to private property owners.
In other good news -
This spring the eco-socialists lost 17 out of 17 court cases they filed to stop logging on our nation’s collectivist federal forests.
The court victories mark a turnabout from recent years, when so-called environmentalists succeeded in delaying and halting logging projects that many Western lawmakers said would have removed the trees and underbrush that fuels wildfires.
The Healthy Forests Restoration Act, passed by congress last year, trumped the whining and junk science used by environmental Marxists to stop logging. This no logging hysteria caused massive conflagrations in the federal forests, resulting in the loss of millions of acres of trees, the destruction of entire eco-systems, destroyed thousands of homes and buildings and covered the sky with massive pollution.
The law authorizes up to $760 million a year to treat up to 20 million acres of federal forests and grasslands at risk of catastrophic fire.
Mark Rey, the Agriculture Department undersecretary who directs U.S. forest policy, said, “Any month when you win 14 out of 14 cases is a good month.”
Judges are required by the new law to weigh the environmental consequences of inaction in considering tree-cutting projects.
Chris West, vice president of the American Forest Resource Council, a timber industry group, said “what the judges are recognizing - as Congress did overwhelmingly - is that we have a crisis situation facing our forests.”
The freedom hating eco-socialists are running from courtroom to courtroom, trying to find a judge who will ignore the law so the forest fires can get roaring again.
These people are not environmentalists. They’re socialists who don’t want to see anyone making a dime off these trees. They’d rather see the forests burn to the ground than see jobs created and products produced.
The states, I remember them. Took four years to give them a voice. There's a federal role here, but it's secondary. One day we'll recognize that the enviornmentalists are the ones who spend their time there, earning a living, ever hunting and fishing, not the Sierra Club dayhikers.