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Would have been, would have been, would have been.
We need to talk about the future. We in the federal lands arena making our livings out here have certainly heard from the environmentalists. Their unrelenting lawsuits that they admit are to stop all economic benefit to users of these lands, have blocked any and all logging, thinning, grazing, recreation, access and many many other legitimate uses of these forest lands. Because they prefer to keep people from making a living on this land, they are burning. Mother Nature is sick of being sick overcrowded, and bug infested. She is comitting suicide. There is no doubt fire is beneficial but it is only one tool and not the only tool at this point. Fire supression was a tool as well in areas where logging was needed to build an economy. When all timber harvest came to a screeching halt due to extream environmental activism combined with legal action and a corrupt forest policy, the trees, brush and grasses swiftly overtook the forests, yet fires were still put out by bureaucrats with a budget to justify. It has become a vicious cycle.
Now all we hear is excuses for the current situation and no plans for helping it. Lamenting over what we should or should not have done in the past hundred years will not fix the current situation.
The enviromentalists have no intention of stopping their onslaught against anyone out here that wants to live and mke a living. They want us OUT, burning us out is acceptable if that is what it takes.
Meanwhile, they make a tidy living keeping up the suits and getting the justice department and big corporate businesses to grant them money to do it. There is no incentinve for them to stop.