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.
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
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.
Does owl taste like chicken?
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.
Wood collected in Oct. surely will be ready to burn by Halloween. /s
NM Ping!
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.
Then why did they put it in the bill? Looks like they don't know "whut the L" they are doing, which is nothing new.
FTA: protecting a species of spotted owl....
Here are some spotted owls nesting in an ancient Kmart sign
http://www.northernarizonagazette.com/2013/04/11/k-mart-sign-change-will-not-happen/
Rapin Bill Clinton “judge” Raner Collins is the one responsible for this.