“The Sunday Morning Bray”, by Bray!
All they that be fat upon earth shall eat and worship: all they that go down to the dust shall bow before him: and none can keep alive his own soul. Psalm 22:29
American forests are another example of why you do not want Marxists controlling anything on the this scale. After forty years of liberal activists having absolute control of these forests, they are dying and burning in record numbers. The smoke and ash in the Western skies are now a common sight as their forests are being burned to the ground.
This summer there was a lightning strike up in the Mt Washington wilderness which started a small fire. It was spotted immediately from satellite and reported to the Forest Service to send a small group of fire fighters out and quickly extinguish it. Rather than putting it out the debate in Moscow on the Potomac was weather to put it out or let it burn. This discussion went on for a week as the small fire turned into a 50,000 acre forest fire when the firefighters were sent out to fight the fire taking weeks and millions of dollars to extinguish.
The liberals in the District of Corruption preached for decades if we set the forests aside they will magically become healthy old growth because man is no longer damaging them. So the Forest Service has banned the loggers from the most valuable forests in the world and let them manage themselves since Gaia can heal the earth. That is like telling a farmer to plow his fields under and if he would allow Mother Earth to run his farm there will suddenly be rows of corn for the next forty years if you chant and dance to drums.
The forests are a complex environment which needs to be managed or you will have the most aggressive forests species choking out the other trees and this is what we have going on now. The set aside program has allowed the fast growing trees such as Lodgepole Pine to overgrow choking out every other species including their own.
This species grows like a weed to reach the sun and grows in huge patches with the heartiest tree not allowing slower growing trees to get sunlight or water and minerals. This leaves millions of dying and dead trees standing in the forests.
The dead and dying trees are susceptible to disease and bugs such as the Pine Beetle which made a huge swath throughout the Cascades and Rockies fifteen years ago from the top of Canada to the Mexican border. The Pine Beetle added to the massive quantities of dead trees standing in the forests drying in the sun adding to the fire hazard as these trees became tinder dry waiting to ignite into a raging fire.
After forty years of neglect thanks to Marxist activists like the Sierra Club, these forests have become hundreds of thousands of square miles of firewood waiting to burn. They used the junk science of the extinction of the Spotted Owl as an emotional tool to close the forests to logging which actually manages and eliminates those dead trees from the forest ecosystems making the forests healthier. The Spotted Owl fraud has been disproven when they found the Horned Owl was hunting the Spotted Owl into extinction. Now the forests are filled with these dead drying trees full of disease and bugs spreading to healthy trees and making that fuel load even heavier and the only way it is eliminated is by massive fires.
These dead trees and heavy underbrush has made these forest fires into furnaces which kill everything in their path. During one massive fire in Montana there were thousands of elk, deer, bear and every other species found dead after the fire. They become disoriented and trapped in the fire as their escape paths are choked off and succumb to the smoke and heat to be burned alive. These fires burn far hotter than any temperatures they have seen in the past. The average temperatures in the old forest fires or in properly managed forests used to be 700-800 degrees and now these blast furnaces are burning over 1000 degrees scorching everything in their path.
The blast furnace temperatures literally sterilize the earth. What this means is they sterilize the ground up to a foot into the soil which is where all the nutrients are. The forests are built on the complexity of micro-organisms in the ground and these fires are eliminating those microbes from the soil. These microbes and minerals do not come back to that soil for hundreds of years and nothing will grow in those areas for decades or hundreds of years due to the heat these forests are generating. When you actually get down to the microscopic life of the forests the chemical exchanges between the ground and the trees is a miraculous occurrence which these fires are destroying for hundreds if not thousands of years. The fragility of this relationship is being destroyed due to neglect causing these massive natural blast furnaces.
The Marxists have used these forests as an emotional club to destroy the lumber industry. The Spotted Owl was used to make everyone go along with them just like every other one of their enemies in capitalism. Just as their other scientific frauds like Acid Rain, DDT, Global Warming and Peak Oil they use these made up crisis’ to make people adhere to their socialist economic agenda by closing down these industries which are the lifeblood of America.
Everyone wants to save the cute owls or save a tree.
They have used trees and owls as emotional attachments to get the masses to adhere to their way of thinking.
These Marxists are some of the most manipulative marketers in the world in that they are able to sell poison candy to the people who will not only buy and eat it but believe there are drinking from a holy chalice while they do. They have turned these campaigns into religious movements telling people they can make themselves better by drinking this holy water even if it is killing them as they drink.
The only thing we can do to save the forests now is to begin managing them properly. They are dying on a massive scale and the fires are only going to get worse as more and more of these forested lands burn. They are seriously damaged with so much dead and dying fuel adding to the time bomb. We are likely only a decade or so from losing them completely as massive fires roll through sterilizing thousands of square miles for hundreds of years. This year’s record snow packs and rain only added to the problem as the grass grows, dies and becomes an igniter. There is only one real solution to the ultimate death of the forests and that is man and specifically loggers being used to manage the forests back to health.
A group of concerned citizens have formed a group called Forests for Oregon (ForestsforOregon.net) to petition the government to sell the Federal Lands to the public like the Eastern States for proper management. It is time to begin healing the forests rather than worshiping them as they burn. If you want to save the forests contact this group to see what you can do to become a part of turning the forests back to the productive engine it needs. These forests can become assets rather than liabilities if they would be managed properly and made into the gift God had intended they be.
Pray America woke
Note: The above opinion is not necessarily my own, but FReeper Bray’s. If you wish to discuss this, please ping Bray.
I'm sensing a metaphor regarding demographics.
Good Morning Alas... thanks for the ping.
Absolutely great post, Bray.
Really piece here bud the forest and the NOAA data buoy system all needs to be privatized there’s so many things that government is doing there that should not be doing government is usually a disaster when they try and do anything other than protect the currency or maybe help prevent a war fight of or whatever so long way to go just thank God Trump is our president
Those fires in Montana burned a million acres of forests--the size of the entire state of NEW JERSEY. Friends who intended to vacation in Montana's Glacier National Park, were turned away by the fires, and thick smoke and ash. Meanwhile, the Drivebys, focused on the East Coast hurricanes, pretty much ignored the western wildfires. A metaphor?