[Focault's Pendulum]

Under the new policy, the Forest Service and Interior Department would not need an environmental study before cutting or burning excess trees on as many as 190 million acres of federal land considered to be at-risk for a catastrophic wildfire

As a former firefighter who lost 5 fellow brothers some twenty years ago, in a woods fire.....about time.

You don't know fear until you see a crown fire approaching you.

[goldstategop]

None of this is a surprise. The enviro wackos care more for trees than they do for people. And if it suits their purposes, the trees be damned.