Here is the facts. The corporation that actually won that 4FRI bid was disqualified BECAUSE, the USFS did not want to deal with a company that used that natural resource solely for building material..it was an OSB board manufacturing corporation. They actually bid millions more on that contract.
So, they awarded the contract to an outfit that had no capital to perform-no machinery, no financing, and poor experience. They then claimed that the mill in Heber was the lynchpin to the operation. Yet the man who owned and ran that mill in Heber, a first class crook and shyster, and also filed bankruptcy, got into the act. To top it all off, the main point man, is a former USFS employee for the people whom the contract was awarded.
Here is a little secret. I personally know a very high up in one of the biggest AMERICAN forest products manufacturing corporations in the USA. Before this all went down, and was in its very initial stages, they went to the USFS and offered to put in the proper plants, manage the logging, do all the work, and make it right. The USFS turned them down. They suspect that the USFS had gone on the take for one, and for the second, this corporation told the USFS they would bring in experienced logging crews from other states as well as local crews-something the local loggers do not want.
Now we see the effects of this mismanagement of a resource by the USFS, which have been infiltrated by anti management eco nuts. So they transferred that contract to a GREEN ENERGY COMPANY.
http://www.sfreporter.com/santafe/article-7515-up-in-smoke.html
Please get this information out to the local conservative talk stations in Tucson. I am sure Garrett Lewis 790A KNST on his morning show and James T Harris at 104.1FM The Truth in the afternoon would be very interested.
God Bless You for being aware and telling others.
just a little update. Slide rock at 7500 acres, 5% contained. Believed to be man-made. One of the fire guys said the trees are so dry they are flashing into ash. (is that possible?)
“The fuels are just so dry, entire trees are turning to ash,” said Dick Fleishman, a spokesman for fire managers.
A primary focus of firefighting efforts will be to pinch off the fire where it has reached the top of the canyon’s northeast corner to keep it from burning northward toward residential areas, he said.
Sciacca said 500 firefighters were assigned to the fire Thursday
http://www.azfamily.com/news/Many-residents-flee-as-Slide-Fire-grows-260249701.html