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Arizona is burning and the Forest Service, pressured by green environmental groups are to blame for their massive, uncontrollable devastation. The Wallow fire, raging in eastern Arizona near Alpine, Nutrioso and Springerville has burned 408,887 acres, over 600 square miles and is the second largest fire the state has ever seen. The largest in Arizona history was the 2002 Rodeo-Chediski fire, which burned 468,638 acres or 732 square miles of Ponderosa Pine forest. The Wallow fire is only 6 percent contained with high winds on the way and easily could pass the Rodeo-Chediski fire in size. Gary Kiehne is a...

It sounds so wonderful. Instead of dirty old coal-fired plants spewing polar-bear-slaying carbon dioxide while producing half of America's electricity, Interior Secretary Ken Salazar envisions a Great East Coast Wind Farm of whirling turbines generating 1 million megawatts, or the equivalent of 3,000 coal plants. This scheme is impractical on its face, but calculations based on the proposed Cape Wind project off Cape Cod reveal the extent of this lunacy. Cape Wind plans 130 turbines, arranged in rows of three per mile, with rows set a half-mile apart. Each 440-foot-tall turbine would produce 3.6 megawatts when the wind blows. Never...