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FIRE! ^ | 02/04/2003 (FR gets a head start) | Eric Buckner

[EBUCK]

(Fighting Irresponsible Radical Environmentalism In ARIZONA!!)

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: 2/04/2003

CONTACT:
Eric Buckner
FIRE! (Fighting Irresponsible Radical Environmentalism)
ericb@azfire.org
http://www.azfire.org/preleases/arizona/AZprelease.html

FIRE! Erects Billboard in Heber Arizona, Blames Environmentalists for Forest Disaster

Heber, Arizona, 02/04/2003 - FIRE, a non-profit political action group, has erected a billboard near Heber Arizona, site of the Rodeo-Chedeski Fire. The purpose of the project is to express outrage at the disastrous wildfires largely due to the destructive demands of environmentalists.
It reads:

Thank You
EnvironMENTALists
for Making the 2002 Fire Season
All It Could Be!

FIRE! (Fighting Irresponsible Radical Environmentalism)
P.O. Box 3360
Albany, OR 97321-0713

AFZIRE.org

Eric Buckner, lead organizer for FIRE! explains, "It's time we held environmentalists and their cohorts accountable for the failure of their policies. Activists, bureaucrats, politicians, and judges now bear full responsibility for the ongoing destruction of forest habitat in the West."

This is the second billboard for the organization (the first was near the Biscuit fire in Oregon). The group believes that although fire may be part of the natural order, 80 years of irresponsible government logging, fire-suppression, and poor control of noxious weeds have created stand conditions from which there may be no recovery from a fire without significant preparatory work.

Buckner explains, "This disaster has been building for decades and environmentalists have barred nearly every attempt to avert it. They were warned and didn't listen. Instead, they sued repeatedly until they got their way. Well, look at what it got the forests of Arizona: nearly 470,000 acres denuded more thoroughly than any clear-cut. If it rains hard, rivers and streams will be choked with mud. Then weeds will spread rapidly with little competition from native plants. If we don't remove the fuel and it burns again in ten years or so the damage may be irreversible."

"We all know who's responsible. In their hatred for the timber industry, activists, judges, and bureaucrats have nearly wiped out the infrastructure that could have prevented Rodeo-Chedeski. Now that the fire is over, who is going to fix the mess to prevent an even worse disaster? Millions of acres desperately need restoration work while tribes have been robbed of their principle asset and tens of thousands of those skilled in timber harvesting are now either unemployed, have other jobs, or have left the area. Meanwhile, activist lawyers are STILL standing in the way, doing very well for themselves making demands that promise to destroy what's left.

"This isn't about who cares about nature any more. We're just as concerned about long-term, systemic solutions to these problems as are the activists. This is about who is going to fix it, how to pay for it, and how to verify performance and assure accountability that the restoration project will be performed optimally and efficiently. We believe that free enterprise can do a better job caring for nature than politicians, bureaucrats, lawyers, and urban activists who, so far, are STILL ducking their complicity for this disaster. Private Property rights, water rights, and recreational and commercial land uses are big issues with us. We plan to continue this campaign, perhaps with similar promotional efforts throughout the West."

For additional information or a sample copy, contact Eric Buckner of FIRE! at ericb@azfire.org.

CONTACT:
Eric Buckner
FIRE! (Fighting Irresponsible Radical Environmentalism)
ericb@azfire.org
http://www.AZFIRE.org
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[EBUCK]

I tried to ping you but couldn't spell your name...thought it was Meekn"K"ing...fruedian slip perhaps???

[MeekOneGOP]

lol ! Thanks !

[Salvation]

**It's time we held environmentalists and their cohorts accountable**

Says it all!

[EBUCK]

Says it all!

Yah, accountability is a four letter word in the world of NGO's....Thank Carry-Okie for the great Press Release!

C-O, pp.125, much easier to read now.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Cool! We need a billboard down here in the city, though, where the eco freaks live.

[EBUCK]

We wanted to get it close to the actual fires, getting close to those that helped create the situation was unfortunately secondary...

[Britton J Wingfield]

Is there a fund for a second billboard? Right off of I-17 north of Phoenix would seem like an ideal place for one.

[Carry_Okie]

C-O, pp.125, much easier to read now.

Lol! Not for long! Your real break starts in Part IV.

Now notice, Part I was tough, but then there was a break at Gamecock.
Part II was tough, but then there was a break at the beginning of Part III.
Most of Part III is pretty nasty (depending upon your experience in financial matters, especially Chapter 4), but then it's downhill from there with the possible exception of the last chapter in Part IV.

[EBUCK]

There isn't. This one is on a 12 month lease and every dime we recieve is going to go toward re-imbusring the main donor.

If it turns out that we could afford to do another one that would be great but I wouldn't get my hopes up, it's hard enough as it is.

That would be cool tho, right on the outskirts of Pheonix, preferably right across the street from some enviral HQ....

[EBUCK]

Part III was tough as I have no financial experience. Did my best to "get it" but I fear that a lot of the message was lost on me.

I'm into the actual plan now and to tell the truth I couldn't get to sleep last night because I was running it thru scenarios, testing for failure. The only one I came up with was in the case of "really" zero-priced (like semi-desert) land that has no extractable resources. How would it apply to that situation or should I just keep reading and the book will get to that?

[Johnny Gage]

Hooyah EBUCK and friends for getting the enviroMENTAList word out.

You deserve a "Howie Salute"

[Carry_Okie]

A desert is a great place to do things. You can make all the noise you want. Mines don't do so much damage and a city can locate there without wrecking something that is more productive. As such, the return from marketing offsets of deferred development in more temperate areas would make building in deserts much cheaper. They clearly have solar heat and geothermal cooling. As such, a desert is a sink for those activities which would be more destructive elsewhere. All it takes is technology.

The same is true of the center of the oceans, which are also biological deserts. That makes them a terrific place for farming, as opposed to the coastal regions that are both more sensitive, more productive, and more important to maintaining a habitat suitable for humans.

[Britton J Wingfield]

Paypal incoming!

Got any bumper stickers?

[blackie]

Stop enviro-terrorists, now!

Be Well - Be Armed - Be Safe - Molon Labe!

[Carry_Okie]

A desert is also a great place to experiment with biologically risky genetic compositions. One could farm there with some pretty radical plants with no fear that they might escape. That makes marketing habitat a better deal in a more traditional farming area.

It takes a little practice, but the opportunities are endless.

[FBD]

EARTH FIRST! (We will log the other planets later.)

I have friends and family in the timber industry. My brother owned a small gypo logging outfit, and my nephew runs a loader. I set chokers for a summer, out of school.

Folks, I can tell you for a fact, and as many of you are well aware, that many enviro's are just Watermelon terrorists that have a religious jihad against any logging. These guys attempt to block all operations, no matter how protective the logging company is to the environment. Fact is, most are communists, and don't give a tinkers damn, when it comes to coservation.

The below picture is not doctored. I have seen this done with a hippie tree hugger's Volkswagon van. Tree huggers; bring your Subarus, Volvos, and VW vans, when you protest a logging operation: PLEASE! Loggers can use the amusement!

[EBUCK]

We sold out of bumper stickers last year....could do another run if there were sufficient demand.

[FBD]

coservation.=conservation...geez!

[EBUCK]

OK, but that's a hard sell, to get people to liver there and create the necessary infrastructure etc.. Meanwhile people will still want that property "managed" but without the comercial end of the deal to pay for the InsCert (tm) process how will that take place in a civic situation?

[EBUCK]

Not doctored???? Where is the left rear wheel?

Great comments tho.