[Carry_Okie]

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The key to this story is to recognze a system that exists at variance to its purpose, which is only to perpetuate itself, not to care for a forest. It is a structurally-incompetent system, bound by procedure and legality, incapable of accomplishing it's purported goals even if it were so dedicated.

It isn't, simply because there is too much money to be made manipulating the value of resources.

It is important to recognize that not only does government environmental management not work, it CAN'T work, no matter how much political pressure is brought upon Congress to act. No reform, law, or initiative will change that fact. It is a fact the founders of this nation understood.

There is an alternative. It starts with private property.

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[Carry_Okie]

This story should burn you.

[Scott from the Left Coast]

There are those who believe people have no right to live near a national forest

Enviro-greens (communists in "clean water" wrapping) are the most powerful lobby in the state of Washington, after the Teacher's Union. And they are destroying the original concept of multi-use National Forests. Just trying to use them for even recreation is getting more and more difficult (ask any ski area owner). The irony is they not only end up ruining economies (like in California, Washington and Oregon), but they also end up trashing the environment they purport to hold Holy. They have left all reason far, far behind.

[Chewbacca]

There is a bright side to all this.

The erosion from rainfall next year will wash a huge bunch of gold nuggets into the nearby streams.

This should make gold panning and gold dredging really profitable next year.

[NormsRevenge]

BTTT

[LisaAnne]

Thanks for the ping!