We had 200,000 acres burn in my county alone last year. The environmentalists are sue happy. They (EPIC, Siskiyou Wildlands and KFA) have appealed one project that is clearing fire-dead trees from around a community that is needed only for safety purposes. There is NO harvest, NO salvage in the project. The community even worked with the Forest Service to design the project under their Community Wildfire Protection Plan.
These environmental groups are routinely stopping any management of the six national forests in our area and endangering tens of thousands of lives and the courts let them get away with it. This cannot be tolerated. There are lives and property being put in danger, the health of the forests are severely impacted and we are stuck with 20% unemployment because there are no jobs in the woods - not even stewardship jobs.
You’ve got to understand that the purpose of these ‘environmental’ groups isn’t about saving the ‘trees and birds and bees’, it’s about reducing the population of MAN!
They all think that man is the cause of everything bad in the world and the world would be better off without us.