Posted on 06/24/2002 2:35:23 PM PDT by Retired Chemist
CALL FOR BETTER FOREST MANAGEMENT
Arizona Gov. Jane Hull compared the fire to an out-of-control train at a press conference Sunday in which she highlighted the need to thin the often-dense forest growth amassed after decades of battling wildland blazes. Some environmentalists have fought the move, saying it would disrupt habitats.
Mother Nature is saying to Arizona and the West, we have got to clean up these forests, she said. Nature is telling us that we got to get this under control.
Exactly.
Coming from the Sierra Club, that's a joke. They've put out more wild rhetoric in the last 10 years than all the conservative in the country together.
Just one example: a press release this very month
Date: Thu, 13 Jun 2002 09:47:44 -0400
Sender: Sierra Club Press Releases
From: Wendy Balazik
Subject: President Bush Poised To Abandon Clean Air Act
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE June 13, 2002
PRESIDENT BUSH POISED TO ABANDON CLEAN AIR ACT
Of course, Bush is doing nothing of the sort. It's a lie, in other words.
Sharp partisan rhetoric is apparently OK for the Sierra Club, but not OK when used against them. People have been logging the west for a century. Environmentalists have been interfering in forest management practices for the last 20 years. If historical forest management practices were the problem, how come huge, devastating wildfires seem to be a recent phenomenon?
Worst part of it is, if the Sierra Club would stick to its original mission, I'd be proud to be a member.
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