Posted on 01/27/2002 6:47:42 PM PST by brityank
"The tactic is the same with every major wildfire across the Western United States - delay long enough so the economic value goes away," said Aune.
The tactic is the same across the whole country; delay and obfuscate and bleed them dry -- using taxpayer funds to promulgate their watermelon agenda.
Are they coming out of the closet?
Heaven forbid that someone should turn a profit!
The mortality standards at the 2000 Storrie fire were written in November by Sheri Smith, the Forest Service's supervising entomologist for northeastern California.Smith said she began research 13 years ago out of concern that the agency's 4-decades-old standards - primarily 50 percent crown scorching - meant too many live trees were being given up for dead.
"I have the same concerns that Mr. Hanson has - I don't want to see trees cut that aren't going to die. But what I want to do is provide the best scientific data for basing decisions," Smith said.
"I'm the one who is going to get called into court for the deposition and I'm going to be the one the judge asks what kind of data we have."
The 65 percent standard is based on more recent research with pine trees dating to 1994, including some in the Lake Tahoe region, she said.
"I take it very personally when people say the guidelines are not based on science. My No. 1 concern is forest health protection. I don't get paid any more or less at the end of the day if they cut more trees or less trees," she said.
The watermelons won't be happy until the FS raises the level to 99%; and they'll still bitch over the one!
What kind of nonsense is that? - Every tree is going to die! - Most of the trees in the Sierra die before they are 200 years old; many due to beetle infestations that occur when the canopy becomes too dense, keeping the sun from hardening the bark.
The losers: The forrests, the economy, the tax base, the citizens.
The winners: communists engineering the destruction of America.
That pretty much sums up all their tactics. Destroy the economic value, first. Then take over.
What? This isn't a thread about Sierra Nevada Brewery? Sorry....
While many patriotic Americans (and anti-communists worldwide) are aware, President Ronald Reagan was pivotal in proving that the economics of communism do not (and can not) work, ever anywhere, they are not so much aware that the communists fled to enviromentalism and animal rights as cover for their movement. Economic class warfare no longer worked for them, so they just change clothes, THEY DID NOT DIE OUT OR GIVE UP. Watermelons are what they are, green on the outside, RED ON THE INSIDE.
No kidding. And drag out the process until the total cost becomes astronomical.
In late '97, a weather anomaly (it is believed the jet stream touched down) flattened four million trees in the Routt National Forest. Some suggested that without quick action, bark beetles would infest the blowdown and then move on to nearby standing timber. The usual suspects conspired to slow the process. The beautiful people of Steamboat Springs screamed bloody murder that they didn't want logging trucks driving trough their town.
There is now a fair chance that the beetles will defoliate the trees at the ski resort. Of course, they'll also leave thousands of acres of standing deadwood in their path. The next thunderstorm will take care of that.
I sometimes wonder if any of these people have ever actually been out of their apartments, let alone spent any time in the woods.
Sounds like a subset of "people before profits." Another fraudulent left-wing construct.
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