Bush, at charred resort, touts plan to thin forests against fire danger

Washington Times ^ | Tuesday, August 12, 2003

[JohnHuang2]

SUMMERHAVEN, Ariz. (AP) — During a visit to a charred mountain-resort community yesterday, President Bush called on Congress to pass legislation to allow for prompt thinning of overgrown forests.

"Forest-thinning projects make a significant difference about whether or not wildfires will destroy a lot of property," Mr. Bush said after touring charred areas of the Santa Catalina Mountains in southeastern Arizona. "We need to thin our forests in America."

[JohnHuang2]

Tuesday, August 12, 2003

Quote of the Day by MEG33

[petuniasevan]

Bush-backed measure does not provide the funding needed to protect communities

So says the Wilderness Society. What about your effort to "protect" (read, burn out) communities, hypocrites.

Message to intellectuals in those coastal ivory towers: you don't LIVE in those burned areas. You forced your "let it overgrow and overburn" policy on a rural constituency which didn't have the political clout to prevent your experiments. These are PEOPLE, not lab rats, and this is their HOME, not flyover country.

You tried your "be one with nature, like it or not" policy. It has been a DISASTER throughout the West. Your pseudoscientific quasi-religion of environmentalism is ROT. Utter BALDERDASH. GARBAGE. BS. NAZI tactics.

Oh, and we recognize your underlying effort to force every rural person off their land so you can have lebensraum for weeds, toads, and flies.

[EternalVigilance]

Fly over the West, with maps that dilineate federal land and privately owned land.

The federal land is a mess. Overgrown, ladder fuels in abundance, diseased trees ravaged by insects--a disaster waiting to happen. Disater that is striking more and more frequently, with devastating results.

The private land is thinned, cleared of ladder fuels and diseased trees--and healthy.

The program that is being pushed to thin narrow strips around communities throughout the West is a dangerous joke. Fifty feet, one hundred feet, two hundred feet...it doesn't matter. When fires that start on federal lands get going now, they are so intense, so destructive, literal firestorms that will jump distances that are magnitudes higher than the wimpy politicians are allowing to be thinned. They burn so hot they sterilize the soil, creating permanent deforestation.

The West is fast becoming a dangerous wreck of the liberals making.

So, so sad--and utterly unnecessary.

[Libertarianize the GOP]

ping

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

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[E.G.C.]

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