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Obama forest nominee surprises conservationists
Vail Daily ^ | May 6, 2009 | JEFF BARNARD

Posted on 05/08/2009 4:30:57 AM PDT by chambley1

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To: Man from Oz

Oh yes, the mismanagement of the nation’s forest is criminal. This stupid policy of letting everything lay just waiting for a spark causes disasterous forest fires.


21 posted on 05/08/2009 5:28:43 AM PDT by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
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To: Quick Shot
Here you go...


22 posted on 05/08/2009 5:57:57 AM PDT by 2nd amendment mama ( www.2asisters.org | Self defense is a basic human right!)
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To: chambley1
I don't see what the big surprise is.

Homer Lee Wilkes has as much experience managing forests as B. Hussein Obama has managing anything! Birds-of-an-affirmative-action feather flock together!

It does appear Mr. Wilkes is also a form of community organizer to boot (Katrina cleanup community service). I suppose the only question left to answer is, is he a Communist as well?

The US Forest Service is in for a rough ride. But so is America.

23 posted on 05/08/2009 6:10:44 AM PDT by Gritty (In Obamaland where truth is dead, muscle power becomes the operative standard of speech-Doug Giles)
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To: chambley1

The benighted Obama White House continues to cobble together what history will record as the single most incompetent administration in the annals of America, bar none.

Not content to find the basement and remain there, they are digging the nation ever deeper into what seems virtually a bottomless well of misdirected effort.

This, to such an extent that future administrations, together with future generations of Americans, will have to labor mightily simply to locate the ground floor of political, social, and cultural rationality.

And it’s only been a little over three months.


24 posted on 05/08/2009 6:12:48 AM PDT by Jack Hammer (here)
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To: caver

It’s staring already. Here’s a quote from another thread:
“Hundreds of miles of backcountry roads used by outdoor enthusiasts would be closed under a new federal plan to protect grizzly bears in the Selkirk and Cabinet mountains that stretch from northeastern Washington to northwestern Montana. . . .”

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2246854/posts


25 posted on 05/08/2009 6:15:04 AM PDT by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
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To: raybbr
"He picks a guy that later on he can replace with a "Forest Czar" who WILL take complete control of the national forests and declare them all closed to humans."


26 posted on 05/08/2009 6:15:28 AM PDT by Joe 6-pack (Que me amat, amet et canem meum)
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To: Jack Hammer

National Organization of Professional Black NRCS Employees

http://www.nopbnrcse.org/conference/courses_descrip.htm

2008 Conference Course Descriptions

Career Development

Eric Banks, Homer Wilkes, Sylvia Gillen, Kevin Brown

Empowering employees by providing information on how to manage your career by improving your knowledge, skills, and abilities to successfully move up the career NRCS ladder.


27 posted on 05/08/2009 6:16:22 AM PDT by chambley1
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National Organization of Professional Black NRCS Employees

Wonderful. Another a-hole who'll work a few hours a week on the job, maybe, and the rest of the week on his personal "diversity" agenda. Its rife in big corporations. And if you say boo, you're a racist. Black Rage is a beautiful thing....NOT!

28 posted on 05/08/2009 6:22:15 AM PDT by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.)
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To: caver

One of the things that amazed me recently is the number of National Forests that require dogs to be on a leash anywhere in the forest.

All part of the ‘Keep the Peons out of OUR Forests!” program.


29 posted on 05/08/2009 6:28:41 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Everything for Unions, Nothing for Defense!)
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Professional and Employee Organizations

American Indian/Alaskan Native Association for NRCS
Asian Pacific Islander Organization
Association of Women Soil Scientists
National Organization of Professional Black NRCS Employees
National Organization of Professional Hispanic NRCS Employees

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/partners/employee_org.html


30 posted on 05/08/2009 6:32:22 AM PDT by chambley1
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To: chambley1

I had to look it up. He worked for what used to be the Soil Conservation Service. He has no background in things like timber sales, recreational use of public lands (the NRCS advises private land owners), hunting, ATVs, hikers, etc.

But as others have noted, how hard is it to say no? No hikers. No hunters. No ATVs. No timber sales. No No No!

Darn it! If I were black, I could have competed for the job...

And the sad thing is that most of the ‘conservationists’, who live in cities and get their ‘wild’ time from watching TV, will think that is fine.


31 posted on 05/08/2009 6:49:12 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Everything for Unions, Nothing for Defense!)
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To: chambley1

The same fine organization worked the Klamath Falls conservation program...and we all know how well THAT has worked!

http://www.nrcs.usda.gov/feature/klamath/


32 posted on 05/08/2009 6:52:01 AM PDT by Mr Rogers (Everything for Unions, Nothing for Defense!)
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There are a huge number of rules in the Forests that most people don’t even know about. It’s easy to break the rules.


33 posted on 05/08/2009 6:58:40 AM PDT by caver (Obama's first goals: allow more killing of innocents and allow the killers of innocents to go free.)
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