California Official Sues U.S. Forest Service

Fox News ^ | Tuesday, February 15, 2005

[ManHunter]

California Official Sues U.S. Forest Service

LOS ANGELES — A 15-year fight over how much timber to cut in the Sierra Nevada Mountains (search) just got longer.

California Attorney General Bill Lockyer (search) is suing the U.S Forest Service (search) over its management plan. The issue: how much wood should be cut in 11-million acres of federal woodland.

[ManHunter]

Are this guy and Elliot Spitzer related? Shouldn't the Attorney General have something better to do? I guess he thinks that supplementing taxpayer funding of a federal agency with revenuew from the sale of timber equates to "the politics of trying to benefit the timber companies and their friends."

[.38sw]

Lockyear wants to be governor. He is trying to appeal to the lefty environmentalists in this state. When he's not doing that, he works on appealing to the anti-gun factions.

[mammer]

Calif needs to send questionnaire's to the public asking if they object to cutting down trees in an effort to better control fires, then after the next fire they can divide the bill between all those that objected, demand it be payed in 30 days and fine those that don't pay or pay late. THAT would end the debate real quick.

[frogjerk]

The issue: how much wood should be cut in 11-million acres of federal woodland.

AP: How much wood, could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

[passionfruit]

What a doofus! Our forests are still full of dead trees from the Bark Beetle. We need to get them out and thin the forest, which was part of the problem that let to the disasterous 2003 fire season. At the end of that season everyone agreed that past practices had allowed to forests to grow too thickly populated. Where is Lockyer coming from anyway?

[shoffma1999]

You beat me to it.

[frogjerk]

As soon as I read the first few words, It clicked.

[Ben Ficklin]

This on Federal lands, the Natl Forest, the state has no jurisdiction.

CA began working on the Sierra Plan 15 years ago, with the co-operation of Clinton and his Interior Dept.

Bush entered office just as this plan was to be approved. He replaced the Regional Forester who wrote another plan.

[Paraclete]

Interesting take here. The law of unintended consequences at work.

[Ramonan]

First, Lockyear was a petty politician in California State politics. He was a state senator.
Lockyear got his law degree at night school. He has never practiced law or tried a case.
True to form for Liberals., he was elected Attorney General on Gray Davis' coat tails and the fact that he is a Democrat.

Here is another review of him:
http://www.blogforamerica.com/archives/003209.html
Saturday, January 17, 2004
California Attorney General Lockyer Endorses Dean
SAN JOSE--California Attorney General Bill Lockyer today endorsed Governor Howard Dean, M.D.

"Howard Dean offers the best assurance that Democrats can rescue America from George W. Bush, and move our country forward on the issues Americans trust Democrats to do best: job creation, education, the environment, workers' rights and health care," Lockyer said.

"Most important to me, Howard Dean tells the truth, and George Bush isn't leveling with the American people. I'm pleased to join the Dean campaign to take the White House back from an administration that kowtows to big business and ignores the hopes, dreams and needs of America's working families," Attorney General Lockyer added.

Bill Lockyer was first elected as Attorney General in 1998 and was re-elected in 2002. As California's highest-ranking law enforcement officer, Attorney General Lockyer has shifted the state's Department of Justice from purely prosecution to include a focus on homeland security intelligence and crime prevention, keeping California safer and stopping crime before it occurs. In addition, Lockyer has gone after businesses such as predatory lenders, deceptive credit card lenders, and living trust mills that seek to take advantage of California consumers.

He is the second statewide official in California to endorse Dean and joins nine members of Congress representing California who have endorsed as well.

[SierraWasp]

"AP: How much wood, could a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?"

CORRECTION! How much wood, W0ULD a woodchuck chuck, if a woodchuck could chuck wood?

It's the old "Can He/Will He" question, you see... (Love that scream name!)(grin)