Proposal targets rules to protect forests

Washing Times ^ | 9/6/02 | Audrey Hudson

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The Bush administration yesterday presented Congress with an initiative to protect national forests from wildfires by easing strict environmental regulations to allow thinning dead and dying trees.

"This legislative proposal would give us management tools we desperately need to help get our forests and communities out of the crisis they are in," said Agriculture Secretary Ann M. Veneman.

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[madfly]

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[WaterDragon]

Ha! The environmentalists signed off on Daschle's bill because he's a Democrat and the other Demo running in his state needed this to get votes. Well, that tells us that the Democrats understand very well that the voters do not like watching the forests burn just because the environmentalists tie us up in court.

We have to get this word out to every single American, exposing the Democrats selling us out, once again.

This is a great article, madfly. Thank you so much for the ping!

[Alamo-Girl]

Thanks for the heads up!

[sauropod]

HAH! I love it! Hang them with their own legislation as a template to roll back the envirofascists!!!!

Let Freedom Ring! 'Pod

[DallasMike]

Actually, I live in Texas, not Arizona. Arizona's a great and beautiful state though!

[Carry_Okie]

Interior Secretary Gale A. Norton said the 10-year collaborative process will involve local community involvement.

There you have it folks. Ten years of 'involving local community involvement' in a "collaborative process." They'll all be dead and buried before they thin enough forest for it to make a difference, no matter what the good Congressmen think.

[sauropod]

I'm not surprised. Shelve the suggestion in the guise of "collaborating."

Why does this sound like Vichy France to me?

[SierraWasp]

"of "collaborating."

That is ALWAYS these Enviro-Commonist's fall-back position!!!

She knows better than this! It is always the Milk Toast Moderate business/pragmatist's position. "Compromise & Consesus," until we've compromised ourselves into "Compromising Positions!"

This "Monte Hall" bull crap has got to be stopped! ANY "deals" made with these fanatics, even when their leader screws up, inures to their benefit... not our forests benefit!!!

This catering to militants is pure unadulterated baloney just as much as trying to make "deals" with fundamentalist terrorists!!! It CANNOT be done!!! It's just their stalling tactic until they can regain total control and it's been proven repeatedly!!!

[blackie]

Stop the attacks on our Freedoms by the wacko, extreme left-wing, lunatic fringe, dirt worshipping Green Jihadist, enviro-nazis terrorist's and their toadies in the media !!

Freedom Is Worth Fighting For !!

Molon Labe !!

F.I.R.E. !!

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[Carry_Okie]

It's a good thing that you're a waspman. With all those stinging !!! you'd otherwhilst bee dead meat.

[E.G.C.]

BTTT!!!!!!

[marsh2]

["The General Accounting Office found that only 1 percent of all fuels reduction projects were appealed last
year. The administration should stop using appeals as a red herring and focus on protecting homes and lives
from wildfire," Mr. Anderson said.]

This is an incorrect statement. It was more like 40%. They just keep quoting this erroneous statistic proving that facts don't seem to count with these folks.

FYI Health Forests Reform Act (Rep. McInnis) will be marked up Sept. 12 by the House Resources Committee (link to schedule http://resourcescommittee.house.gov/schedule.htm) H.R. 319 text is at http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d107:HR05319: