The fires ARE the fault of environazis that force bad forest management practices like not allowing selective harvesting, creation of fire breaks, and banning of pesticide use to control invasive insect species.
I didn’t mean to give the impression that the corporations are forcing the US Forestry Dept to intentionally cause these things to happen. However, those corporations lobby politicians, and if say another 150,000 acres of forest get put on the permanent wildlands list or a spotted owl gets listed on the ESL then so be it. And maybe a little money gets passed around to a couple PAC’s that further donate money to PAC’s that support lawsuits against logging in Federal forests. They’re not stupid enough to leave tracks. My father was in the plywood industry back in the 1970’s and 1980’s and the big dogs were flooding the market with cheap plywood undercutting the smaller companies forcing them out of business and thereby destroying PNW timber communities.
Read the Wiki on Louisiana Pacific and note how many acres of private land they own. Also note the fact that when logging was being shut down in the PNW that they magically came out with competing products at the same time. Note how Canadian lumber imports hurt their profit margin. Do you think they want logging opened up in the overgrown PNW forests?
BTW, the replanted trees from the Tillamook/Clatsop burn in the 1930’s are of prime harvesting age. It’s been mostly put off limits despite the history of the timber communities donating money and labor to replant.
I see now, thanks for the background.
More crap.