[rellimpank]

-—thi would be fun to watch if it weren’t going to involve taxpayer funds-—

[mad_as_he$$]

AHH another boondoggle brought to you by the US Forest Service or as we call it here - A Mongolian Cluster F)$K.

[Perdogg]

The cicadas here in Northern VA are getting on my nerves. I am getting ready to torch some trees.

[ElkGroveDan]

Give the enviros a few weeks to regroup from wherever they are causing damage and suffering today. They’ll be along shortly to get a court order to put a stop to this and any other kind of science-based forest management.

[Balding_Eagle]

Finally, when the problem of dying trees reached Aspen, and other liberal conclaves, some attention is being given to it.

Too bad we can’t use DDT, Colorado is quite likely to lose more than half of it’s tres in the coming years.

[B4Ranch]

>This fall, the Forest Service and its partners will begin work on wooded areas where environmental permits are in place. No wilderness or roadless areas will be involved...<

In other words, they don’t want to do it but are being forced to. Let the wilderness and roadless areas burn. That will stop the spread of bark beetles ....... for two seasons.

[goldfinch]

"The work is going to be very strategic," Severson said, "with priorities being to protect human life, public infrastructure and very critical watersheds."

I have lived in Colorado for over 30 years, and the beetle fight has been going on at least that long. This is nothing new.

We have lots to learn about forest management. We have not been at it all that long. It takes a long time, maybe a life time, to evaluate the impact of a government policy on a forest. I am not a rabid environmentalist, but I do not believe that the 50s log-it-all is the right answer nor do I believe that let-it-burn should be the policy. The answer is probably between the two...but we don't have enough data to know what the right balance is...not yet.

[TChris]

The plan, announced Friday, calls for thinning and tree removal in five Colorado counties and two in Wyoming.

Gosh, that sounds a lot like logging, you bloomin' morons! Only, now, we can pay many times more in taxes than what professional loggers could have done it for.

Environmentalists drive me up a wall.