Posted on 06/21/2002 5:06:37 AM PDT by brityank
All of the mismanagement happened on President Clinton's watch! Under Clinton the government engaged in one of the biggest land grabs in U.S. History. The result was too much Federal land, and not enough employees to manage it all.
If anyone has any doubts as to why the idiotic watermelon policies of the Federal Government are so destructive, reread this.
Here is some more reading for deep background (click pic):
The wildfires that have ravaged the West in recent years have focused national attention on the condition of our forests. Why are they so susceptible to severe fires? And how can we prevent catastrophe? In Forests on the Sierra Nevada, George Gruell examines these treasured woodlands through repeat photography: rephotographing sites depicted in historical photographs to compare past vegetation--its distribution and condition--to present. The paired black-and-white photographs document natural and human-wrought changes in the Sierran ecosystem during the past 150 years--from the varied and generally open-canopy habitats of early European-American settlement days to the dense, declining forests of today.
Gruell's comparisons show just how much damage that the misguided policies the ecoterrorists have wrought in the past few decades. The 'roadless initiatives' will create more conflagrations that they will use to keep human activities out of the forests and stuff us all into 'sustainable communities'.
The fire over near Heber was also arson.....someone got lost and started a signal fire!
Sadly, between those two and that Barton in Colorado, the tinhat vigilantes are mumbling about patrolling the forests on their own, with a walkytalky as their second weapon.
Real good time to vacation in Florida.
Either way, the fed is getting what it wants, what happens to these inhabitants is of no consequence to them.
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Ohhh you saw it also?
And this has to do with forest fires how?
If we don't get the Feral US Government under control, your friends in Argentina will have a lot less than they have now.
Welcome to Free Republic.
Most forest fires are arson, true? However, I am old enough to remember that back in the 50's and 60's, there were very few major conflagrations of the intensity and range that have occurred in the past decade. Closed forests are nothing but tinderboxes waiting for a spark, natural or man-made.
I don't forsee this ever happening. The reason: The fedgov will tell the states: We won't send you back 30% of the funds we steal from you to do your road repairs with and the states will kowtow, drop their pants, and smile. The states don't ever realize at this day in age that they, as creators of the federal government, dictate the rules!
Boonie Rat
MACV SOCOM, PhuBai/Hue '65-'66
1. Due to the last four/five years of below average rain, the average humidity of living Ponderosal Pine in n.e. Arizona is below ten percent. Consumer lumber in retail stores is around nineteen percent.
2. More wind today.
Conservation is not a dirty word; environmentalism and their priests are.
More people, more media.
One of the reasons for this current Pinedale fire disaster is that decades ago Pinedale was two ranches. Period. Now they have tennis, golf, condos, boutiques, gas stations, miles and miles of paved roads to attract tourists, etc. Including a home of the Governor of Arizona, who was not born here, but does use state transportation for weekend trips from the state Capitol.
So many factors.
Strict immigration control should have started around 1490.
Yeah, run that by me again?
Remember who you are addressing your comments to.
Sure, I'm holding my breathe waiting for the truth, I might as well go down to the scuba shop first.
Point is, its a sore point.
501c has obligations, don't forget that posting non-offensive and non-vulgar messages that adhere to community standards can result in 501c status getting yanked. Yeah thats right, if you are tax exempt you have to let everybody in the golf house.
But don't worry.. and I don't... you know that as Arnold says: "I'll be back."
If you equate sweeping crap under the carpet with a clean house, your the fool not me!
Hold on to those memories. It'll be a long while.
Remember the old Zane Grey cabin?
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