Hmmmmm, we can do without the services of those 1,200 to 1,500 well paid bureaucrats. Let them join the timber industry people seeking work at the employment office.
Rep. George P. Radanovich, California Republican said "This group of extremists has forever damned their cause and should be treated by law enforcement as a threat to our national security. ELF is as cowardly as al Qaeda and as dangerous as the Taliban. It is critical for us to track them down and prosecute them to the fullest extent of the law."
"RAND receives most of its funding from the US government. A small portion -- less than one percent of its $160 million in research revenue in the last fiscal year -- came from Arab nations, Egner said."
"In that way, the fires resemble natural blazes that long ago cleared Western forests and may clear the same tinder now targeted by President Bush for thinning."
More enviro-bullscat. Move along Mr.President, there isn't anything to see here.
Sure hope you folks down south aren't subjected to the smoke and ash fall we have had here around the Biscuit fire for the last six weeks or more.
"Or does it open up the forest floor so more light can get in and lots of small fuels grow there,and moisture levels drop?" This was the question referred to.