Posted on 07/24/2002 9:26:33 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
Tuesday, July 23, 2002 'Environmentalists' Endanger Sequoias You don't have to be a tree hugger to love California's magnificent sequoias. But thanks to environment-destroying "environmentalists," these towering symbols of the West could go up in smoke.
A 38,000-acre fire roared through Giant Sequoia National Monument today and came within two miles of the Trail of 100 Giants. This majestic grove features some of God's greatest work, among the largest and most ancient living things on Earth, 1,500 years old.
Nuisance lawsuits lodged by "environmentalists" have abetted the growth of the fire. "The courts have blocked the removal of much of the underbrush on the monument's forest floor," the Associated Press reported today.
"Every other project we've tried to do, the environmentalists have filed a lawsuit," said forest ranger Dale Pengilly.
All that underbrush, along with weeks of drought, has increased the danger to the "priceless" trees, said Forest Service spokesman Matt Mathes.
"These trees can withstand a lot of fire, but if there's a lot of fuel buildup on the forest floor, and temperature and humidity and winds are not favorable, we could have a problem," he said.
Oh, and human lives and property are in danger too. More than 1,000 people have fled the area. At least 10 buildings have burned and 200 homes are at risk.
"I was scared. I've never seen it so close. It was coming so fast," said Simone Wallace, who left her home in Johnsondale on Sunday.
Now, thanks to tree-hugging hypocrites, more than 1,000 firefighters are risking themselves to save the sequoias. A product that might interest you:
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IF they do show up at all, even to observe (the Sierra Club doesn't watch, they "observe"), will they emerge from SUV's?
When Henry Waxman turns into a handsome man.
Here's Henry.
The environmental wackos don't care that human lives and property are in danger. They mention the fire can destroy "priceless" trees. How about how this fire could KILL priceless lives and property. Their thinking is so muddy.
Ray Fenner, executive director of the Minnesota-based environmental activist group Superior Action Wilderness Network (SWAN)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/711446/posts
Oh how I LOATH these kooks!
Here is a link to a thread on this fire via another article: (Firefighters Battling Blaze in Sequoia National Forest Warn of '400-Foot Flames')
Their main poster boy in the Senate, Little Mullah Da$$hole has helped to enable these agendas as forestry service actions.
Now Little Mullah Da$$hole is trying to quietly allow logging in his home state to prevent these fires: (Daschle caught exempting only his home state from environmentalist agendas/lawsuits)
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