I would modify this important paragraph: Every environmental organization that has sued, or lobbied to prevent logging, and to close forest roads, should be required to man the front lines against every wildfire that burns. To read:
Every enviral nazi who has pushed the no roads policy, no harvesting of even dead trees and no brush removal should be forced to fight these fires all summer, this fall and into winter.
They should be taken up into smoke jumping airplanes and fitted in air with a parachute and give a 30 second lesson on how to jump and survive. Then,use cattle prods force them out of the planes. Just before they jump, strap a hoe dag and one canteen of water around their necks. Then push them out.
Once on earth in the middle or on the edge of a roaring fire that is the direct result of their agenda, they can decide to hug a tree or fight the fire.
Why make them jump? Because with the road closures, they are forcing our smoke jumpers to jump into places a decade ago that fire fighters and heavy equipment could have been driven up to fight the fire. How many smoke jumpers have been killed or injured because they had to jump into an area to fight a fire due to closed roads?
Last but not least, is there some Enviral Agenda against using bull dozers and power wagons to make fire lanes? It seems like all we see are pictures of humans fight fires and no heavy duty equipment!
The agenda is seed. The dozers and heavy equipment carry weeds. The wackjobs fear them for that reason and rightly so. The problem with that idea is that boots, backpacks, tents, and tarps carry weeds too. The net effect of all that caution is to make things worse by increasing the acreage and number of sites exposed to entry by firefighters from all over the country.
Fuel management always was the correct tool and these turkeys are now in over their heads.
Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!
Molon Labe !!