Either we act or massive fires will act for us.
Massive fires produce air pollution...not just smoke, the ash will pollute the streams and lakes killing the fish and other wildlife, our drinking water will be polluted by the ash, and the soil will be destroyed if the fire gets hot enough.
People will loose their homes, jobs, schools, and lives if we only re-act.
Removing the dead and dying pine trees needs to be done all over the country...not just along I-70.
Well no kidding...we've already had a massive fire here and with the drought for the last 9 years now it is scarey. We worked on the fires, you can't blame the F.S. as much since there has been a change of hands since Clinton...it is the lawsuits. Unless you have lived and worked in logging towns people really do not understand it all. By the way when Clinton was in still in 96' we could not have heli water drops out of lakes to help put out some of these fires in Id. and other places because it might hurt the fishies...no kidding...I could go on and on...