Every year a nonprofit in our areas hosts the “woods tour.” They bring legislators into the woods and show them how various areas of the National Forest are managed and how private timber lands are managed. I have attended a few of these and, for the most part, the legislators are astounded that they can stand on a high hill and see forest and trees as far as the eye can see in every direction. From all the environmental group’s propaganda, they are under the misconception that we have clear cut all our forests and that we need to preserve every stick that is left.
More and more, however, the forests are burning because the government is no longer managing them - they are preserving them to death. The fuel buildup has become horrendous from lack of harvest. Last year, in my county alone, we had 300,000 acres burn.
We are not running out of forests, we are just putting them off limits to human use.
This kind of liberal insanity drives me to the brink of my own insanity. We don’t manage the forests for our exploitation, which is good for both us and the forest, and instead we let all that timber burn. Not that the growth won’t come back, but the liberal insanity is just out of control. They aren’t even subtle anymore that “mother earth” would be better off without humans.