[DesScorp]

The people don't get it. Environmental whackos liked that their houses burned down. Cleanses the human scum from Mother Earth's back, in their view.

[RightWhale]

Yep.

Think they’d learn something sometime but nooooooo . . .

[reagan_fanatic]

"I hate to get political, but environmentalists wouldn't let us cut down the dead trees," he said.

That's the problem with our side - while too many of us hate to 'get political', the loony left doesn't and uses it to great effect. They're setting the agenda because they're making the most noise. It's time we joined the battle.

[Southack]

We had routine forest fires each Summer here in Alabama until the 1950’s when we started implementing scientific forest management (e.g. cutting dead trees, building logging roads in strategic locations, etc.).

Now you seldom if ever hear of a forest fire in Alabama (a woodland state).

...more liberal states can’t say the same thing.

[meyer]

They said they were angry at bureaucrats and environmentalists who made cutting of trees and clearing of land difficult.

I wouldn't cry a tear if several environMENTALists (and perhaps some bureaucrats as well) took a long walk in the desert and never returned. Those people are beyond useless.

[Species8472]

USDA Forest Service Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit Fuels and Vegetation Management Review

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Review Findings
Overall, the people interviewed feel there is a serious fuels problem in the Basin. They support rapid fuels treatments to reduce the wildfire hazard. There is general agreement that everyone who lives/works in the Basin, and all agencies that have responsibilities in the Basin own a piece of the problem. Because the Forest Service is the largest land managing agency in the Basin, there is an expectation that the Forest Service will lead the way toward a solution to the fuels problem.

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[tubebender]

The chickens awake after the fox is in the hen house...

[marsh2]

The Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors recently passed the following resolution on Forest conditions. The way National Forests are being managed is shameful.:

RESOLUTION DIRECTING ABATEMENT OF A PUBLIC NUISANCE

WHEREAS, approximately 63% of Siskiyou County’s 6,600 square mile land base is retained as federally managed lands; and

WHEREAS, on August 17, 2001, the Federal Register Vol. 66, number 160, listed the Siskiyou County communities of Big Springs, Callahan, Dorris, Dunsmuir, Etna, Fort Jones, Gazelle, Happy Camp, Hornbrook, Horse Creek, Klamath River, Macdoel, McCloud, Mt. Shasta, Quartz Valley, Sawyers Bar, Scott Bar, Seiad Valley, Somes Bar, Tennant, Weed and Yreka as “Urban Wildland Interface Communities Within the Vicinity of Federal Lands That Are at High Risk From Wildfire”; and

WHEREAS, the Klamath National Forest – a typical Forest located in Siskiyou County, has a standing inventory of 13.5 billion board feet of timber and grows an additional 654 million board feet (MMBF) of timber each year; and

WHEREAS, compared with the year 1989 where 320 MMBF of timber were harvested from the Klamath National Forest, the Northwest Forest Plan reduced the Allowable Sales Quantity on the Klamath to only 440 MMBF over a 10 year period - or approximately 44 MMBF a year; and

WHEREAS, only about 15 MMBF is currently being harvested netting 639 MMBF of additional biomass being added to the Forest each year creating unhealthy forest densities that stress trees, making them more susceptible to pests and disease and aggravating an already dangerously high fuel load; and

WHEREAS, large wildfires have resulted such as in 2006 when the Titus, Hancock, Uncles Complex and Rush fires burned 28,000 acres in Siskiyou County, threatening local communities and costing the federal government more than $12 million to try and contain them until the fall rains and snow could extinguish them; and

WHEREAS, in 2006 more than 16,000 acres burned in the Six Rivers National Forest on the Western edge of Siskiyou County and another 51,000 acres on the Shasta Trinity, south of Siskiyou County;

NOW THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED, that the Siskiyou County Board of Supervisors finds that the current situation of heavy fuel loading in the Klamath, Shasta-Trinity, Six Rivers, Rogue River-Siskiyou, and Modoc National Forests constitutes a dangerous public nuisance posing a genuine threat to the public safety of communities throughout Siskiyou County; and

THAT THE SISKIYOU COUNTY BOARD OF SUPERVIORS DIRECTS the U.S. Department of Agriculture to commence immediate and accelerated efforts to abate this nuisance through comprehensive and widespread hazardous fuel reduction on National Forests throughout Siskiyou County.

[SierraWasp]

That picture of that woman holding her head and bawling in overwhelmed disbelieving grief almost reminds me of Lot’s wife, (no, I’m not talking about Trent!) who then turned into a pillar of salt! It’s truly a haunting picture!!!

[hedgetrimmer]

"I hate to get political, but environmentalists wouldn't let us cut down the dead trees," he said.

It's like saying... "I hate to TELL THE TRUTH but environmentalists wouldn't let us cut down the dead trees,"

[marsh2]

We had a hearing today by Cal-Fire (CDF) on the new State Responsibility Area (SRA) fire hazard maps. www.fire.ca.gov These don’t include the FRA (Federal Responsibility Areas) or the LRAs (Local Responsibility Areas. Most in the SRAs will face new and very expensive building material requirements in 2008.

[herMANroberts]

Dr. Bill Wattenberg. "Thinning Can Save Our Forests."

http://www.pushback.com/environment/forests/

[Suzy Quzy]

A conservative is a liberal who has been mugged! Sounds like the same thing, only instead of being mugged, their house burnt down.

[traviskicks]

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