| The report only includes "mechanical" fire-suppression projects, or those that rely on logging, not burning. Such projects are much more likely to be appealed by environmentalists, who see thinning as a sop to the timber industry.
No one should pay attention to these people. They are not what they say they are. They are anti-human luddites who are using our courts to impose their religious beliefs on the rest of us... with catastrophic results. If our liberal activist judges will not take themselves out of day-to-day management of the national forests, then Congress should remove the area from their jurisdiction. No one expected judges to substitute their own forest management skills for those of the Forest Service, and to the extent they have been arrogant enough to do so, this is the result. Congress has the power to take away their toys, and it should do so. Taxpayers should not have to pay the salaries of trained forest management professionals, and then have some jackass with a law degree overrule them and burn down half the state because he's too full of himself to do otherwise. Judges share with all Americans the right to pursue their religious beliefs in private. When they start imposing their religion from the bench, it's time to rein them in. |
This is a revealing peek into the true agenda of the environmentalist left. God forbid some use should be made of these trees; better to burn them than to allow the dreaded timber industry to turn them into useful products.