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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.