Good. Roads can be effective fire blocks. The whole world watches our forests burn each fall. Besides, I think it is bogus that the feds claim to own half of the west.
Yup. Hopefully, that's going to be addressed in the second term.
Kerry will use this issue as campaign fodder to rally his eco terrorists against Bush. W's now destroying the last remaining forests.
And in the same breath, promote the natural burning of the forests as beneficial to their preservation. The natural burn theory replaces the logic of managing our forests for future generations.