Posted on 09/13/2020 7:30:25 PM PDT by george76
Bill Clinton’s land management rules and other liberal policies paved the way for future debilitating wildfires
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Zybach warned of potential disastrous wildfires shortly after Clinton signed a slate of rules in the mid-1990s that drastically reduced logging and road creation on federal lands.
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Shortly before leaving office in 2001, Clinton limited the ability of the United States Forest Service to thin out a dense thicket of foliage and downed trees on federal land... created a ticking time bomb
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“If you don’t start managing these forests, then they are going to start burning up. Thirty years later, they are still ignoring it,” said Zybach, who spent more than 20 years as a reforestation contractor. He was referring to warnings he made years ago, telling officials that warding off prescribed burns in Oregon and California creates kindling fuelling fires.
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Shortly before leaving office, Clinton introduced the Roadless Rule that restricted the use of existing roads and construction of new roads on 49 million acres of National Forest, making it difficult for officials to scan the land for the kind of kindling that fuels massive conflagrations.
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Ten years before Clinton’s rule, the Fish and Wildlife Service placed the northern spotted owl on the Endangered Species Act, forcing the Forest Service to adopt a new policy that resulted in a greater reduction in timber harvests. The amount of timber removed from federal lands plummeted
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It’s great for lawyers, but it’s bad for people who breathe air or work in the woods.”
“The prescribed burns are an ancient form of management for keeping the fuels down so these events don’t happen,” Zybach added, referring to Native American Indians who used controlled burns to ward away pests and prevent wildfires ..
(Excerpt) Read more at dailycaller.com ...
I remember the Coming Ice Age. LOL... can’t believe people can’t see what’s going on.
Bill Wattenburg, RIP!
Well, actually, not that it matters much, It was George Herbert Walker Bush (Daddy Bush).
Would you rather it had been Ross Perot, or maybe William Jefferson Clinton and "Co-President" Hillary Rodham Clinton... WAIT! It was those last two!!!
BTTT!
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