Environmentalism Helped Kindle Fires

Human Events ^ | 11/7/03 | Joseph A. D'Agostino

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[StriperSniper]

Bush (and presumably Pombo) want to thin it all so it won't burn.

I don't know if it is fair to characterize their intentions that way. Maybe that they want it all to be available to thinning, but to actually do it would be too massive a project that would never happen. By slicing off areas where thinning(or anything else) would be prohibited, will only encourage more 'no-go' territory until the whole program is useless. Granted there will be some places, such as stands of giant Redwoods and the like, but exceptions are just noses under the tent that the environazis want to begin to incrementally make the exception the rule again.

[StriperSniper]

Luv that pic!

(Poached Elk! ;-)

[ErnBatavia]

...Reading yesterday, there are still 900,000 dried, dead, tall, dehydrated pines in the So Cal mountains just waiting for the next Santa Ana condition.

[TexasCajun]

In all the news coverage of the fires, I never once heard the words 'environmentalist' or 'Sierra Club'.

If I lost my home, I'd be trying to sue these and others like them.

[VOA]

Thanks for posting the "Courtesy of The Sierra Club" photo!
Even here in Los Angeles, the usually slightly left-of-center radio show host "Mr. KABC"
(www.kabc.com) has had shows for the past couple years about the impending
conflagration that would happen when all the worlds tallest matches (the standing
pines killed by the bark beetles) finally caught fire.

It's a guilty pleasure to hear Californians (most who'd usually vote for enviros/DemoRats)
wake up and start realizing they helped cause this disaster with their own votes.

[js1138]

Whatever became of the goat idea?

[philman_36]

It's a guilty pleasure to hear Californians (most who'd usually vote for enviros/DemoRats) wake up and start realizing they helped cause this disaster with their own votes.
Nothing like a "hot" cup of coffee is there!

[philman_36]

(Poached Elk! ;-)
The elk are smarter than the evironmentalists!
They'll survive.

[blackie]

Eradicate environazis ~ Now!

[Cincinatus' Wife]

A severe bark beetle epidemic has left many trees more susceptible to burning. Forest Service spokesman Joe Walsh also noted that the area had "dry, no-rain, extremely arid conditions. The Santa Ana winds."

......... "Arizona and New Mexico could be next for big fires," said a congressional aide familiar with the issue. "There's not enough money in the Interior appropriations bill to clear all the areas that need clearing. We need timber harvesting."

Bump!

[MissAmericanPie]

Helped kindle fires my foot. They caused them to be much more damaging than they needed to be.

[CedarDave]

Late to this thread, but want to show this actual billboard along highway US 550 in NM:

[GSWarrior]

California's Santa Ana winds "blew the fires back up the hills into the conifer forests," said Robert Nelson, a professor of environmental policy at the University of Maryland and a fellow at the Competitive Enterprise Institute.

I don't claim to be a climatologist but I don't think this guy knows what he is talking about. Santa Ana winds blow in from the desert, down through the mountains and valleys and out onto the Pacific.

[AuntB]

Bumping for a later read!