Forest Service Lifts Fuelwood Ban on New Mexico Forests After Judge Modifies Ruling

THE WESTERNER ^ | 10/3/2019 | Frank DuBois

[American in Israel]

This type of political interference with the forrest service timber management is exactly why hundreds of Californians burned alive in the destruction of the town once called Paradise.

Politicans should not attempt to manage forests until they get forestry degrees.

[CIB-173RDABN]

Why do we need three branches of government?

Perhaps we could save money if we eliminated the Executive and Legislative branch and let judges rule over us. /s

[cowpoke]

Yes, using the ESA, NEPA and so on, the enviros are using the courts to control land use.

[Wuli]

1. Judges making policy. Wrong on the face of it.

2. “other timber management activities, such as timber sales, forest thinning and prescribed burns, were excluded from the judge’s new ruling.” Those of some of the very things in good forest management that helps prevent forest fires.

[Sacajaweau]

All for some dumb a** owl...who contributes nothing.

Does owl taste like chicken?

[cowpoke]

“Those of some of the very things in good forest management that helps prevent forest fires.”

Exactly. And those actions are now prevented on 5 forests in NM and one in Az., or approximately 12 million acres.

[Fred Hayek]

Here we go, spotted owl again. Going back to 2000, a misguided ruling prohibiting the electric coop in Otero County NM from trimming branches away from transmission lines, ostensibly to protect the spotted owl, resulted in many well done spotted owls.

[crusty old prospector]

Did they taste like chicken?

[sasquatch]

Wood collected in Oct. surely will be ready to burn by Halloween. /s

[Army Air Corps]

NM Ping!

[Tijeras_Slim]

There’s a lot of dead wood in the forests, that’s usually taken first.

[TheNext]

If that Judge were around, we would still have the Tyrannosaurus Rex roam our neighborhoods and WE would taste like chicken.

[NonValueAdded]

♫ If I could be king of the forest...

[Bull Snipe]

really don’t know. In the late 80, here in Washington State they use to sell “Spotted Owl Helper” for those loggers put out of work by the Endangered Species Act.

[robel]

The owl, snail darter, etc are all just convenient excuses for enviromental activism. The enviromentalists are anti-human. They think that humans are a cancer on the planet, and the only way to atone to mother earth is to try to eliminate as many humans as possible, by shutting them off from natural resources.

[sasquatch]

I cut only dead wood (my forest) and try to get it split by May. Late this year (july), our first fire this AM was a slow burn. The forests are way overloaded with fuel. The ban never should have occurred. The only time to halt collecting is red flag weather.

[cowpoke]

According to the FWS, here are the total acres of critical habitat set aside for endangered species:

• 99,917,183.43 acres of Final CH; 1,214,479.22 acres of proposed CH
• 34,073.02 miles of Final CH; 1,756.76 miles of proposed CH

[CedarDave]

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[CedarDave]

The owl, snail darter, etc are all just convenient excuses for enviromental activism. The enviromentalists are anti-human. They think that humans are a cancer on the planet, and the only way to atone to mother earth is to try to eliminate as many humans as possible, by shutting them off from natural resources.

I'll be posting an article on another critter, a small lizard, that occupies oil drilling areas of the Permian Basin. The enviro-facists are using it in an attempt to shut down the drilling/production. Secondary objective - prevent "global warming" from fossil fuels.