” Wilkes is the first person in at least 30 years to be tapped for the job without any background in forest policy, indicating the Obama administration has no specific plans for managing national forests.”
LOL!
Anyone really surprised by this?
Whenever I read about yet-another-incompetent pick I’m reminded of Obama continually hammering away at Bush’s “judgement” during the campaign.
but Andy didn't have any problems voting for a 147 day senator for President
“Wilkes is the first person in at least 30 years to be tapped for the job without any background in forest policy, indicating the Obama administration has no specific plans for managing national forests.”
You want to bet? His plans will continue to make wilderness areas, national parks, etc. more difficult to access for the average person. It is federally owned property but they don’t want us peons on the property. As an example, look up White Nose Syndrome. They are using it as an excuse to keep cavers from entering caves.
Let’s see how long it is until there’s some scandal in his background.
Maybe he was the only one who had actually paid his taxes in the past few years.
LOL
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"Obama is the first person in over 200 years to be tapped for the job without any background in business or government management, indicating that his administration has no plans for managing the country."
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.
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.
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.