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Bush Takes An Axe To Misguided Environmental Policies
The Washington Times ^ | 12 Aug 03 | Dissociated Press

Posted on 08/12/2003 6:43:58 AM PDT by .cnI redruM

Edited on 07/12/2004 4:06:16 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]

SUMMERHAVEN, Ariz. (AP)

(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Culture/Society; Government; News/Current Events; US: Arizona; US: Colorado
KEYWORDS: aspen; crawford; environment; fires; forests; healthyforests
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To: .cnI redruM
Critics said in advance of yesterday's trip that Mr. Bush's program would undercut environmental laws and not provide the money necessary to protect communities from wildfires.

We all know who these "critics" are: controlling little twits with terminal megalomania.

Just fund enough to stomp on these cockroaches and the communities threatened, left to themselves, have the common sense to do what is necessary to protect themselves.

Just throw any "official" who interferes (after firing him, of course) and the problem takes care of itself.
Before 1972, I recall no great handwringing about dealing with the fire threat.

21 posted on 08/12/2003 7:50:42 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Californians are as dumm as a sack of rocks)
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To: Noumenon
To the environazis, human lives are expendable....the flora and fauna must come first.
22 posted on 08/12/2003 7:50:55 AM PDT by OldFriend ((Dems inhabit a parallel universe))
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To: OldFriend
During the terrible fires in Colorado a huge bulldozer was brought in to create a fire break but was not allowed to be used because it might trample endangered plants............

Did the little gestapo wannabe get fired?

Do we know his/her name?
Idiots in positions of authority are a greater threat than terrorists, in the long term.
At least overt terrorists can be flushed out and dealt with.

23 posted on 08/12/2003 7:53:58 AM PDT by Publius6961 (Californians are as dumm as a sack of rocks)
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To: Eric in the Ozarks
What the Green kooks don't realize is that the trees that are thinned aren't logging material anyway. These 'junk' trees are used more for paper pulp than anything- if anything at all. These kind of junk trees fuel forest fires, and allow fires to spread quickly over incredible distances.

On the DUH side for these idiots, for every home that is lost in a forest fire, trees are needed to provide the wood for rebuilding.

24 posted on 08/12/2003 7:58:36 AM PDT by rintense
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To: OldFriend
Restoring last weeks tag line:
25 posted on 08/12/2003 8:00:24 AM PDT by CedarDave (New slogan for the environmental whackos: "Its for the Landscape")
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To: OldFriend
Environazis complaining that President Bush is using the scare tactic of forest fires to allow logging...........

No surprise there. I'd like to suggest that the EcoNazis *prove* that thinning and selective clear-cutting are not necessary. All they've got to do is form a "human chain" to stop the next forest fire. They'd make a dandy firebreak, don't you think?

26 posted on 08/12/2003 8:01:52 AM PDT by Charles Martel
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To: Publius6961
All I do know is that lives were lost, and millions upon millions of dollars worth of damage done to the economy and the resultant burn area is prone to terrible flooding.
27 posted on 08/12/2003 8:02:10 AM PDT by OldFriend ((Dems inhabit a parallel universe))
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To: Grampa Dave
How is it going up there in the woods/forests?

It has been an interesting summer weather wise. We had a couple of weeks of 100+ degree days in mid July followed by a week of thunderstorms and rain. Now the temps are in the mid 80's...feels like fall almost.

As far as work goes, things are very slow here. Getting permits through the State CDF bureacrazy has reached gridlock. Thank goodness all of the agency heads, as well as members of the Board of Forestry, are political appointees that will be canned when the guv is recalled. Folks who don't think changing governors will have any effect are forgetting this....the guv appoints the leaders of the various agencies, and thus sets the policy direction. So the recall is a welcome developement in my immediate economic future.

28 posted on 08/12/2003 8:02:25 AM PDT by forester (Reduce paperwork -- put foresters back in the forest!)
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To: Publius6961
Letting people deal with their own issues could cause the help to become uppity. Dr. Dean wouldn't want that.
29 posted on 08/12/2003 8:03:34 AM PDT by .cnI redruM ("Repent, For The End is Righteously ------- Nigh!" - 28 Days Later)
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To: forester
Thanks for posting this reminder and reality about what will happen when Herr Davis is recalled:

As far as work goes, things are very slow here. Getting permits through the State CDF bureacrazy has reached gridlock. Thank goodness all of the agency heads, as well as members of the Board of Forestry, are political appointees that will be canned when the guv is recalled. Folks who don't think changing governors will have any effect are forgetting this....the guv appoints the leaders of the various agencies, and thus sets the policy direction. So the recall is a welcome developement in my immediate economic future.

That could be really good news with the Fish and Game Department.

30 posted on 08/12/2003 8:11:05 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Gray Davis = Bill Clinton without the conscience + Al Gore without the charm = Total Recall Time!)
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To: rintense
More trees would be cut down to replace the burned homes then actually burned during the fire.
Not to mention the replacement of all the copper wiring that comes from mining and smelting, which requires coal/oil/nuclear power to run the smelter and lumber mills and all the gasoline/diesel fired trucks used in the transportation of the materials.

The replacement of all the carpeting which is manufactured from synthetic materials as a byproduct of the oil industry.

Imagine the environmental savings by preventing forest fires through managed forest thinning. Liberals just don't think.

31 posted on 08/12/2003 8:15:12 AM PDT by Chewbacca (Stay out of debt. Pay cash. When you run out of cash, stop buying things.)
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To: Marie Antoinette
Bring it on!
32 posted on 08/12/2003 8:15:50 AM PDT by Baseballguy
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To: Grampa Dave
That could be really good news with the Fish and Game Department.

Absolutely. Davis kept three postions on the Fish and Game Commission vacant until a controversial vote came up (listing coho salmon as endangered under State law). At the last minute, he appointed a sierra club activist to the commission who provided the deciding vote. Doofus has absolutely no ethics what-so-ever.

33 posted on 08/12/2003 8:40:43 AM PDT by forester (Reduce paperwork -- put foresters back in the forest!)
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To: forester
Just what we need, a Sierra Club Watermelon Jihadist on the Fish and Game commission. He/she/it will $crew ever farmer, rancher, logger, forester and fisher with their anti American bias.
34 posted on 08/12/2003 8:50:58 AM PDT by Grampa Dave (Gray Davis = Bill Clinton without the conscience + Al Gore without the charm = Total Recall Time!)
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To: Charles Martel
Between these crazies and the Earth Liberation Front, the loss of life and the economic damage is becoming VERY serious.

I do not understand why these people have not been found and prosecuted.

35 posted on 08/12/2003 9:54:15 AM PDT by OldFriend ((Dems inhabit a parallel universe))
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