[mjp]

Some activists would like to see our forests locked away, put off limits to all human activity.

The effect of environmentalism has been the creation of a horde of hysterical bumpkins and terrified Ma and Pa Kettles in the midst of modern civilization.

[Foolsgold]

Here in San Diego GW had monies in the county to clear the trees attacked and killed by the beetle, and Sierra Club fought it. We had a massive fire that only luck saved Julian and other heavily populated places. Thousands of homes burned and lives were lost.