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The Feds have been pernicious land managers, making life hard for both citizens and state and local law enforcement.

The fuse was lit when Bill Clinton sat on the south rim of the Grand Canyon in AZ and signed away the energy-rich Grand Staircase in UT as an untouchable wilderness. Power-drunk Fed agents from various agencies have messed with people and contributed to growing ill will. The Feds have also made life hard for people seeking the vast energy fields under the soil.

So here we are, at the point where states are taking action. Interesting times.

In Oregon it is our timber. The feds have done a horrible job managing our federal timber lands, driven by the environmentalists. Some rules that they sue over is replanting burned federal forest land. Not allowed. Spraying weed control in newly planted forests. Not allowed. Allowing roads to be maintained so firefighters can get into the burning forests. Not allowed. Letting hunters take care of over population of deer, cougars even bears, by maintaining the roads. Not allowed.

I have driven to and through all kinds of federal forest land in Oregon and thousand of acres of burned forest some 20 years old just sit there rotting, filled with weeds and dead trees and no birds or animals anywhere in sight. The environmentalists (the feds) will not let Oregonians harvest the burnt trees and replant, why, because if they allowed that then the loggers would be setting fires all over the state in federal forest lands.

Now when another fires sweeps through that tinder fuel of dead and rotting trees it will burn so hot as to put a sterile glass sheen on the surface where no green anything will grow. It is the most asnine management I have ever witnessed, meanwhile we have 14% unemployment and our timber mills are shutting down.

Douglas fir is the most prolific tree growing in our coast mountain range on the planet. They are Oregon's resource crop. Like Iowa and corn, we grow trees, it is just a 40 year crop instead of annual.