City Officials Angry Over Fire Prevention Delays

FOX News ^ | 12/17/2003 | William La Jeunesse

[EUPHORIC]

LOS ANGELES

[EUPHORIC]

I was tag-teamed by over a dozen lefty trolls here back during those fires when I suggested that environut interference contributed greatly to the magnitude of those fires. Now the truth comes out.

[Teacher317]

Now, an agency supervisor admits some of his employees may have stopped several fire prevention efforts because of their environmental philosophy.

Lawsuit, anyone?

[q_an_a]

It would be a very good thing for a couple of home owners to file a RICO against a couple of those people that held up projects. I don't like that law, but it might get the attention of some foot dragging people that live in apartments near a beach and don't want people to live in the mountains...just look at them.

It is what has been done by the envirowacko comunity to hold up needed work. Pay back time.

[RicocheT]

U.S. Fish and Wildlife agency's "concerns" about endangered species delayed tree thinning which led to the burn of 750,000 acres and killed those same endangered species.

Those same environuts still feel holier than tho as feelings, not reality are their measure of success.

[camas]

sue them and the sierra club for their last million dollar.

[doodad]

City officials also claim that they set aside $500,000 for a program meant to thin a number of trees in problem areas identified in a 1995 survey, but not one square foot of forestry was thinned

I bet the money got spent though.

[EUPHORIC]

I bet the money got spent though.

It DID. On "trailhead improvements" and "enhancements to hiking trails and bike paths". Now those "improvements" (typically signs pointing out all the bugs slugs and fairy shrimp the enviros "saved") are all ash - along with said bugs slugs and fairy shrimp.

[Chad Fairbanks]

Ping!

[farmfriend]

Rights, farms, environment ping.

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[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!

[forester]

I was tag-teamed by over a dozen lefty trolls here back during those fires when I suggested that environut interference contributed greatly to the magnitude of those fires. Now the truth comes out.

I saw that.. "give us one example" they said; as if projects are stopped by a single action. The reality is that projects die a slow death based on excessive environmental paperwork and review of that paperwork. Simple ideas like "salvage the dead trees while they have value, and use that value to pay for good things like road maintenance and fuel reduction" are now routinely labeled "exploitation by greedy timber companies."

On "trailhead improvements" and "enhancements to hiking trails and bike paths". Now those "improvements" (typically signs pointing out all the bugs slugs and fairy shrimp the enviros "saved") are all ash - along with said bugs slugs and fairy shrimp.

Trailside interpretive displays are pagan based propoganda IMHO

[WilliamofCarmichael]

The fires killed 22 people.

Remember firefighters Tom L. Craven, 30, Karen L. Fitzpatrick, 18, Devin A Weaver, 21, and Jessica L. Johnson, 19? They burned to death while cowering under protective tents near the Chewuch River, home to protected species salmon and trout. Federal government enviro pukes would not give permission for fire-fighting helicopters to use water from nearby streams and rivers. They didn't want the helicopters to disturb the fish. In the summer of 2001, Thirty Mile Fire in Okanogan National Forest in Washington State.

Anyone for murder charges? I hope to live long enough to see envio-wackos pay and pay dearly. They are a part of the Fifth Column enemy within.

Lives and rights. How much of our property rights have been lost through the courts because of "endangered" species? Remember the Klamath Falls suckerfish?

How about similar losses in our speech and self-protection rights. Those are all peace time losses and they are permanent -- yet some recoil at the thought of temporary loss of rights while we fight a war that is arguably the most dangerous foreign war our Republic has faced, mostly because of the enemy within!