These same type of ecofreak gave Colorado the Pine Beetle outbreak which turned millions of square miles of forest dead brown and is making fire fighting hard.
South Dakota is experiencing the same thing, and while we are on the subject, anyone going through the east entrance to Yellowstone in the past few years the one reached through Cody WY should notice what the National park service has allowed to go on in our premier “National Park”.
The bark beetle devastation is everywhere, and consistent with the Park Service policy of “let nature take its course” lazy crapola that is completely inconsistent with how man should be managing the Park IMHO.
No one needs reminding that the west entrance is slowly after 24 something years recovering from a fire that burned enough wood to provide log homes for a good portion of the US population in 1988.
...and if you need further reminders, consider the Elk population implosion, after the idiocy of introducing the wolf back into the Yellowstone park. Govt on the move looking more like a bowel movement.
Thanks for the post Wita.
You are absolutely right about the pine beetle scourge in Yellowstone and elsewhere in Montana, and most certainly about the elk disaster.
Since Canadian wolves were introduced into the park the Northern Yellowstone elk herd has plummeted from 19,000 elk to fewer than four thousand, and very few of those are breeding cows or calves.
In eastern Idaho the numbers are 16,000 down to fewer than 3,000.
Our government at work with our money.