[Eric in the Ozarks]

Green kooks would rather see the forest burn than allow a single board foot of lumber produced. Someone might make a profit, and they can't tolerate that.

[OldFriend]

Environazis complaining that President Bush is using the scare tactic of forest fires to allow logging...........

[Rebelbase]

"Someone might make a profit, and they can't tolerate that"

And somehow, someway that profit will be tracked to Haliburton and the damn whining will never end.

[rintense]

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.