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I was curious if the Sierra Club would address the revised numbers. In a backhanded, minimal, and softpedaled way, they chose an explanation of their support for Daschle's fire prevention bill to do it. It's quite insipid -- I don't think they wanted to publicize the real numbers.

Forest Fires: Beyond the Heat and Hype

Here's the relevant paragraph:

"The claims by the Wall Street Journal that it is somehow new or out of character for the Sierra Club and the Wilderness Society to support fire prevention activities on the National Forests is a blatant falsehood. We have consistently urged more spending by the Forest Service to reduce brush, create firebreaks around homes and communities and expand controlled burning. We have opposed commercial logging practices which remove large, healthy, fire resistant stands of old growth and replace them with slash, brush, and overly crowded small trees. We favor appropriate thinning practices with a priority being near or around homes and communities. Protecting lives and communities by implementing fuel reduction projects around homes and communities should be the focus of Forest Service activities."

I was curious if the Sierra Club would address the revised numbers. In a backhanded, minimal, and softpedaled way, they chose an explanation of their support for Daschle's fire prevention bill to do it. It's quite insipid -- I don't think they wanted to publicize the real numbers.

They also don't want to publish their real agenda. If you read their Fire Policy on Public Lands you saw it between the lines. It's the real smoking gun.

"We have consistently urged more spending by the Forest Service to reduce brush, create firebreaks around homes and communities and expand controlled burning."

That's pure unadulterated Bull Roar around here!!! They didn't adopt such a policy around the western slope of the Sierra until they got ambushed in the infamous Sierra Nevada Eco-system Project (SNEP) that grew out of the equally infamous "Sierra In Peril," series that won a couple of Sacramento Busy Bee reporters a Pulitzer Prize!

Mr. Doug Leiz, a lifelong forester and former executive with the REAL USFS of yesteryear pulled their covers rather deftly about fire policy and they grudgingly relented.(In fact, I think he is one of the books endorsers on the back cover)

One of the Pulitzer winners recently ran a legitimate series in the Sacbee.com that was actually more honest about the corrupt and powerful GANG-GREEN. Did he get another Politzer? Hell No!!!

If anybody has more than earned a Politzer... In my book, it's Carry_Okie!!!

Who better than a "Process Engineer" to write the definitive book on re-engineering the "Natural Process?"