Our company got a call from the Stanislaw NF asking about our availability to flag and and mark 50 miles of roadside salvage. They said that they were going to cut trees within 100’ of either side of the roads - they wanted it flagged and the boundries recorded with a GPS unit. Evidently, this type of timber sale falls under a negative declaration under NEPA. Maybe that is what these nut jobs posing as scientist are protesting...
Anyway - the specs on this job are incredibly wastefull of taxpayer money. All that is needed is to simply mark the trees that are to be cut. No need to run 100 miles of flag line (ie 50’ on either side of the road) nor GPS it.
I don’t know what to think about this situation - the agencies are hamstrung by enviros and court rulings - and their employees are no longer the best and brightest. Congress needs to fix the laws at some point - but until that happens - it may be best to just disband the USFS - it is simply a waste of money.
Yes! And Jimmy Carter's Department of Education along with the Department of Energy and even the IRS with either a flat tax or a fair tax. We must start chopping off these infernal tentacles of the rogue octopus of the overgrown US GovernMental mess!!!
Good to see you’re still lurking here!!!