[BenLurkin]

Environmentalists reacted quickly to Trump’s latest comments suggesting he is trying to use fire prevention as an excuse to raid California’s forests. They contend he is making a move to open ecologically sensitive public land for timber production, as well as for potential solar, wind, broadband infrastructure, mining, off-road vehicles and grazing uses.

“Trump's threat to cut off funding is profoundly dangerous,” said Chad Hanson, a research ecologist and spokesman for the John Muir Project.

[forester]

the article is total propaganda by the enviros and Dems - I had to evacuate my girlfriend last month from the path of the Delta Fire. It appears that an arsonist set both the Delta Fire and the Hirz Fire - which burned into the Carr Fire burn scar - 350,000 acres total - everything north and west of Shasta Lake - the States largest reservoir Our firm is currently working on helping small landowners who lost everything try to salvage what timber they can - the paperwork costs are beginning to exceed the value of their trees - I hate this with a passion - salvage logging sucks for a forester - the landowners are grieving and this screwed up State stands in the way of trying to get the land cleared and replanted. After 35 years in the California timber industry I am convinced this is on purpose - burn out the conservative rural areas and then take the federal money and spend it on social justice programs in the city. Trump is right, this is a scam.