Gang green ping.
No more prescribed burns for the forests within the boundaries of the ninth circus. Rots o’ ruck, guys.
In the old days, when I was a biology student, the Forest Service proudly proclaimed multiple use management. I remember studying controlled burns and short but intense periods of grazing to manage the land. And I eventually went into the military.
Fast forward over 25 years...and you can’t do any management without the greenies challenging you in court - when their main goal is to remove all management. After all, who are we to manage Mother Gaia...Brokaw’s woman of the year nominee.
The Redundant Department of Redundancy?
On to the SCOTUS for an overturn on the Justice system’s most overturned court.
So far, our County Board of Sups. has declared the National Forests in Siskiyou County to have conditions of hazardous fuels constituting a public nuisance and have ordered immediate abatement. Last week, by resolution, we required an annual reporting by the Forest Service of carbon emissions due to forest fires and projects done to decrease the hazard. Trinity County actually has an ordinance that applies to both federal and provate lands.
Problem is, I don’t believe we have the power to enforce an abatement order on the feds, so it is largely a political statement. Possibly could have some weight in a future lawsuit when buildings get burned down due to failure to manage fuels exacerbating natural wildfires that burn off the Forest into towns. (Last summer, we had this situation in Happy Camp.)
The “police powers” are vested in County Government, but run only against individual action and not the federal government itself, I am told. CALIFORNIA COASTAL COMM’N v. GRANITE ROCK CO., 480 U.S. 572 (1987)