[petuniasevan]

concern the fire could reach the Beaver Park Roadless Area and its thousands of trees killed by pine beetles

If this burns, watch the media do backflips to avoid mentioning the obvious:
No roads plus no clearing diseased trees equals disaster!

[rellimpank]

--when I moved to the Black Hills in '83 two thousand people were supported by logging--it's now a fraction of that, of course as a letter from the Sierra Club or the other "conservation" (treehugger) -groups takes a tract out of consideration for three years-indefinitely, for practical purposes.

Along the same lines, for nearly two weeks now Show Low, Arizona has been in danger--in that hime two dozers could have had a firebreak a few hundred feet wide around the entire town--wonder why not?