In Bavaria the farmers all around me are logging around the calendar, in fact, they are
required to manage their woodlands. The result, the forests have endured here while supporting mankind since before the Visigoths came through.
My point, even where people are green to the point of absurdity as they are here in Germany, sensible regulations are possible. When whole industries in whole sections of the nation are handcuffed because of a few birds or a few snakes, we are confounded by our own fastidiousness.
Our culture has been conditioned ever since Walt Disney's Bambi to exalt this green fantasy over intelligent management of resources. Our law has so perverted procedure that the outcome is inevitable. When the court grants standing to green groups to bring "friendly" lawsuits against the EPA only to result in sweetheart settlements in favor of green fantasy, legalistic tyranny triumphs over democracy.
Believe me, one day they will spot a single flying horny toad and all work will stop to save the species.
There is a very good reason that the lumber industry there all but vanished and “once burned” won’t return freely.
They ought to bring millions of Sierra Club members to ask each tree if it want’s to be converted into lumber. Those that don’t....stay. Those who do continue on to meet a horrible and excruciating death by mechanical “tree death” machines.
/Sarc
