[concerned about politics]

Veneman said many timber sales that could thin forests have been stopped by lawsuits filed by environmental groups.
She reported 73 million acres of forest are at moderate to high risk from wildfire.
"Management by doing nothing is not an option," she said.

Environmentalists responded that the Bush administration doesn't care about the environment.
"Their focus on timber as a commodity is just one more example overall of the Bush administration's total embrace of the big corporate agenda," said Jane Danowitz, director of the Heritage Forests Campaign.

The Bush administraton wants to stop the country from torching itself.

The eco-freaks call Bush names.
To them, homes, animals, and people being burnt alive is beauty.
If they don't get their human misery fix, they just aren't happy and it hurts their self esteem.

[Enterprise]

The liberal land management philosophy:

1. Buy or seize the forests
2. Let them rot
3. Let them burn