[B4Ranch]

The fire has cost $108.8 million to fight so far. It covers nearly all of the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, much of the Siskiyou National Forest, and dips into Northern California. Altogether, about $300 million has been spent to fight wildfires in Oregon this summer.

I wonder how much clearing could be done for 300 million bucks?

[Grampa Dave]

A whole lot of clearing could have been done for 300 hundred million of our tax $'s.

If Carrie Okie was in charge or served as the chief consultant, most of this would have been done by the private sector, creating jobs and having a product at the end of each day that has a demand for it. It would cost us minimal taxes.

Now all of that timber has been destroyed and nothing of value will come from it.

This is so typical of the insanity pushed by the Watermelon Green Jihadists.

[Looking for Diogenes]

I wonder how much clearing could be done for 300 million bucks?

Jack Blackwell, regional forester for the Pacific Southwest, said recent estimates show it will cost $105 million in fiscal 2004 to thin more than 100,000 acres around vulnerable communities.
Brush-clearing costs doubled, forester warns - SacBee