Posted on 06/30/2016 11:10:33 AM PDT by george76
The United States Forest Service severely damaged a forest road and trail in Northwestern Idaho earlier this month, raising serious questions about the agency’s ability to care for federally-managed lands.
During the first weekend in June, several members of Northwestern Gold Prospectors Association (NWGPA) planned to attend a gathering to prospect private claims in the Bedrock Gulch and Eagle Creek areas. When the prospectors arrived, Forest Road 152 was blocked with cement barricades and hundreds of felled trees.
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Photographs from that day show large logs laid crosswise and laterally on the trail, covered with hundreds of large pine branches and sticks, making it both dangerous and impassable. The section of the road along Eagle Creek was also blocked with large logs spanning its entire width, along with sticks, branches and debris, some of which appears to be spilling into the creek.
According to Bob Lowe, founder and past president of NWGPA , the USFS barricaded the road, considered to be a firebreak, because they lacked the funds to repair damage on the road which had occurred due to flooding and erosion.
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The claims in that area have been mined for over 150 years and the trails up there lead to multiple use lands,” he said. “At the top of the ridge is a game trail that we follow. That has been obliterated
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Considering the extremely high standards of care the USFS expects from citizens who enter national forests and use roads and trails for recreation, it appears that its own standard for environmental stewardship is abysmal.
(Excerpt) Read more at watchdog.org ...
Animas’d!
A complete and total lie.
mayhaps the gummint has discovered enough gold to warrant this behavior
Remember that the EPA is coming down hard on anyone that they determine has affected the waters of the United States, through the Clean Water Act.
http://redoubtnews.com/blog/2016/06/10/forest-service-demolishes-access-private-property/
UN Agenda 21 ( Let me know if you wish to be added or removed from the list.)
The heads of National Forest are nothing but dictators….some are ok ..others could care less there getting paid weather they work or not…
The less activity in the National Forest the less they have to do
Yes they blocked the road because they don’t want the public on the land. End of conversation.
our local national wildlife preserve actually CLOSED one weekend in fear of the the protestors in Oregone...
they closed OUR public lands to us....
but get used to it...
Well, someone had to go to a lot of effort to block the road entirely. I suspect it has little to do with avoiding work, and more with protecting the assets of the new foreign OWNERS of the land.
ping!
Because it is no longer public land.
“Because it is no longer public land.” It never was.
I bet that if the Rainbow Family filth wanted to have a saturnalia there, they’d pave the road for them.
Sounds like someone left some free firewood laying around.
Other programs that come to mind are the phony AGW/Climate Change nonsense pushed by the U.N.'s IPCC, the Treaty on Biological Diversity etc. The Forest Service and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service are integral components of the plan.
The pictures of the destruction caused by the Forest Service are amazing. They spent a lot of money to block a road they said they didn’t have funds to repair. The amount of destruction looks wanton and completely “in your face” to the locals.
Local bumper sticker: “Can’t mine it, can’t log it, can’t graze it... Let it burn!”
Ever see the video of the U.S. Forest Service helicopter-blimp crash? They ordered a helicopter-blimp to carry heavy loads from the forest. It crashed during development. What a kludge.
Piasecki PA97 Helistat Accident Crash - helicopter helium blimp hybrid air vehicle heavy lift
https://youtu.be/_7jENWKgMPY
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