[expat2]

There was an interesting article here a little while ago, by a land management expert who was concerned with stopping the growth of deserts. Earlier in his career, he believed that the problem was overgrazing by the natives' farm animals, and drove them all off a section of marginal land. It quickly turned to desert.

Now, he realizes that the land needs more animals, not less, and has had good success with that way to stop desertification.

The arrogance of land management 'experts' continues to be most impressive.

[Beagle8U]

I'm an Earth First kind of guy.

When we finish logging here we'll start on the other planets.

[Standing Wolf]

I believe the only thing self-proclaimed "progressives" don't know better than us commoners is how deeply and thoroughly we loathe their neo-aristocracy.

The whole point of so-called "environmentalism" is to supervise the transfer of the largest possibile quantity of natural resources from those who've invested in land and resources to the "progressive" oligarchy. It's nothing grander than massive, systematic theft by a circuitous route.

[Carry_Okie]

It is time for those who understand these facts to inform others, before they get misinformed by people and groups whose job is to misinform. Too many livelihoods are at stake to ignore the detrimental effects of wrongheaded policies that are dressed up in the rhetoric of idealism.

This was the talk of the late '90s. Bush's "Healthy Forests Initiative" was supposed to fix it. LOL, I was telling Jeff Flake back then that it was going to be the Healthy Lawyers' Initiative, which it certainly turned out to be. Of course, when he appointed AFPA lobbyist to run the Forest Service there was no doubt that it was going to be more of the same.

Guess who gets to log while the National Forests burn? Why, it's the same people who flattened those forests in the first place! The beneficiaries of this illegal taking from the States have been eastern banking families that own large timber companies, particularly the Weyerhaeusers. Ain't fascism wonderful?