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Do you think the Sierra Club fears a backlash? I doubt it. They're so nicely nested within Arizona's institutions. Even the Tucson Diocese holds its annual day on the golf course with this activist group. That's a whole other depressing story...

Do you really think that those tree huggers care about the forests? If so I have some wetlands for sale! The bottom line is always money; these fires will no doubt be the rallying call to raise money to save the forests for these hypocrites. They will no doubt blame the logging companies, the EPA, the park rangers, etc, for the results of THEIR meddling in politics. Lets not forget that these are the same people who hug trees, then drive spikes into them. Any good Boy Scout will tell you that you have to clear dead wood out of a forest to reduce the possibility of fires. But then again the tree huggers don’t like the Scouts either. It’s our fault for allowing these boneheads to become relevant in politics in the first place now we are paying for it. Most of their funding comes from Government money (our money) and it needs to come to an end.

"It's predictable but also irresponsible to lay the blame of a legacy of 100 years of fire suppression and logging and overgrazing at the feet of the environmental community," John Horning, conservation director for the Santa Fe, N.M.-based Forest Guardians told the Albuquerque Journal newspaper.

These guys are the most radical of the radical. In NM they have shut down just about anything the FS might want to do before (prevention) and after a fire (salvage logging). Clearing an area before a fire? O.k., but you can not cut any trees greater than 5 inches in diameter. After a fire? Who would oppose clearing dead but standing trees after a fire? They (and their buddies on the Sierra Club) do. After all, they say, you have to build roads to get the timber out. And, by the way, you might disturb spotted owls and other wildlife. Like there are any owls left after fire that burns with such intensity that sand is turned into glass, and the ground is sealed tight against moisture infiltration. < /rant>

They should be more than frustrated, they should be angry enough to start a movement against such groups being allowed to influence anything stronger than their own stupid members. They should not be allowed to dictate public policy, in fact, I'd love to see some criminal charges against them for contributing to these fires.

Thanks for posting this.

Truth in titles would have the title of this oped saying:

Enviralist Nazis Endanger the lives and homes of any one living near Druid Cathedrals, (used to be called our forests)!

These Enviralist Nazis hate humans and represent more danger 24/7 than the al Qaeda terrorists. The al Qaeda terrorists have to work for years to harm us and kill us.

These Enviral Nazis can kill us with their agendas 24/7! The Enviral Nazis are anti American Terrorists, and it is time to lable them as Enviral Terrorists who hate Americans 24/7 for daring to be alive on this planet.

I can guarantee you one thing, Rose Davis has no clue how to fight a fire.

In the 60's they used to put up a roadblock on the highway and take all of the able-bodied men to fight the fire (and it worked).