A billboard in Heber, near where an Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest wildfire incinerated some 467,000 acres two years ago, declares that the inferno was caused by "enviroMENTALists."
Posted on 09/13/2004 9:21:55 PM PDT by farmfriend
Battle lines are drawn over Arizona's forests By David Whitney -- Bee Washington Bureau Published 2:15 am PDT Monday, September 13, 2004 KAIBAB NATIONAL FOREST, Ariz. - The north rim of the Grand Canyon is ground zero in the battle between President Bush and Sen. John Kerry for the future care and handling of national forests. Here, in a hunting preserve created by President Teddy Roose velt nearly a century ago, the Bush administration is cutting old-growth trees to improve wildlife habitat and, under Bush's Healthy Forests Act, plans to cut down even more to lessen the threat of catastrophic fire.
Under pressure from moderate Democrats such as U.S. Sen. Dianne Feinstein of California to cut a deal, the bill Bush signed was supposed to protect old growth while speeding the removal of brush that in Southern California had turned dry forests into ticking time bombs.
What few foresaw, according to environmentalists who have gone to court to stop the cut, is that in the arid Southwest, 100-year-old trees often are not much bigger than a foot in diameter, and thus within the harvest limits of the Healthy Forest Act.
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A billboard in Heber, near where an Apache-Sitgreaves National Forest wildfire incinerated some 467,000 acres two years ago, declares that the inferno was caused by "enviroMENTALists."
and some say Bush hasn't done anything
For every tree that gets burned instead of harvested, another gets cut to replace the demand. Better to manage a renewable resource than to let it burn to nothing.
1st time I saw that. Neat!
By the way, we have so many dead trees we could be harvesting for the next 10 years and hardly make a dent.
So far, I haven't seem much action on this front.
BTTT!!!!!!!
Them bark beetles have REALLY taken a toll, haven't they!
Bump for more play.
double bump
Sure you liked the azfire.org link when someone else links it but not when I linked earlier. LOL! You just can't please some people.
Aw I was trying to be nice. Point taken, however %^)
Hey as long as we call attention to them. LOL!
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