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Environmentalists may sue over forest firefighting practices
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Posted on 05/07/2003 12:10:55 AM PDT by chance33_98
Environmentalists may sue over forest firefighting practices
(Grants Pass-AP) -- A Eugene environmental group says the U-S Forest Service isn't complying with laws on the use of fire retardant to fight wildfires.
Andy Stahl, a spokesman for Forest Service Employees for Environmental Ethics, says the group is prepared to file a lawsuit on the issue.
The Forest Service uses 15 million gallons of fire retardant in an average year fighting wildfires.
Stahl says some retardant falls into creeks and kills threatened and endangered fish, shellfish and crustaceans.
And he claims the agency hasn't updated retardant-dropping guidelines in light of new studies showing how deadly the compound can be.
A spokesman for the Forest Service says the agency does not comment on pending litigation.
Fire retardant spills have been deadly.
One last summer was blamed for killing 21 fish in Fall River south of Bend.
Another was blamed for killing threatened bull trout near Lake Billy Chinook.
TOPICS: Miscellaneous; US: Oregon
KEYWORDS: enviralists; environment; forestfires; green
To: chance33_98
We should use Logic Retardant to fight fires, then, and drop environmentalists on them. After all, human beings are mostly water.
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posted on
05/07/2003 12:12:22 AM PDT
by
xm177e2
(Stalinists, Maoists, Ba'athists, Pacifists: Why are they always on the same side?)
To: xm177e2
Wait just one minute, the Forest Service was trying to put out a fire? In Oregon? Next thing we`ll hear is the world isn`t flat.
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posted on
05/07/2003 12:29:08 AM PDT
by
bybybill
(first the public employees, next the fish and, finally, the children)
To: chance33_98
Environmentalists should become human shields against fire for the forrests in my opinion!
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posted on
05/07/2003 12:30:15 AM PDT
by
A CA Guy
(God Bless America, God bless and keep safe our fighting men and women.)
To: chance33_98
If an environmentalist's home is in the path of a forest fire, let it burn.
Then listen to them howl "We didn't mean OUR property; just the other guy's!"
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posted on
05/07/2003 1:05:19 AM PDT
by
petuniasevan
(I am McGarrett of Borg. Assimilate 'em, Danno!)
To: chance33_98
"Environmentalists may sue"
Do they do anything else?
To: *Enviralists; madfly; farmfriend
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posted on
05/07/2003 6:36:27 AM PDT
by
Free the USA
(Stooge for the Rich)
To: chance33_98; marsh2; dixiechick2000; Mama_Bear; poet; doug from upland; WolfsView; Issaquahking; ...
rights/farms/environment ping.
If you want on or off this list, just let me know.
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posted on
05/07/2003 8:16:41 AM PDT
by
farmfriend
( Isaiah 55:10,11)
To: chance33_98
21 fish.
If the fire crosses into the next watershed and the fuel load is typical, there will be thousands of tons of mud in the streams that will render them lifeless for years.
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posted on
05/07/2003 8:22:10 AM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(The environment is too complex and too important to be managed by politics.)
To: chance33_98; samanella
bump and ping!
To: farmfriend
BTTT!!!!!!
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posted on
05/07/2003 8:36:42 AM PDT
by
E.G.C.
To: xm177e2
We should use Logic Retardant to fight fires, then, and drop environmentalists on them. After all, human beings are mostly water.
ROFLOL I can't top this response so I'll just say "Ditto." :)
To: Carry_Okie
If the fire crosses into the next watershed and the fuel load is typical,... then they will drop back to the next ridge line and backfire the whole drainage! Dontcha know that there is waaaay more money in burning trees then in growing them :0)
It is yet another reason that proves yer antithesis.
BTW, my office is done an my e-mail is back on!!!
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posted on
05/09/2003 9:40:46 PM PDT
by
forester
(Prevent rants; put foresters back in the forest!)
To: forester
Dontcha know that there is waaaay more money in burning trees then in growing them. Ashes, ashes, they all fall down! (or burn up)
Honestly, I hadn't thought of that one.
Always a new wrinkle, or should I have said "twist"?
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posted on
05/09/2003 10:07:55 PM PDT
by
Carry_Okie
(California: Where government meets pornography every day!)
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