Sen. Feinstein blames Sierra Club for blocking wildfire bill

Associated Press ^ | 11-1-02 | SCOTT SONNER

[Oldeconomybuyer]

SOUTH LAKE TAHOE, Calif. (AP) -- Sen. Dianne Feinstein, D-Calif., blames environmental ally the Sierra Club for Congress' failure to pass legislation last month to thin national forests to reduce wildfire threats in the West.

Sierra Club President Carl Pope said Republican leaders are responsible, and a timber industry leader points the finger at Senate Majority Leader Tom Daschle, D-S.D., who he accused of "election year politics."

[Reelect President Dubya]

The DEMONcRATS are beginning to eat their young. Tuesday has them running scared.

[ServesURight]

Maybe Feinswine will wake up and realize that the Sierra Club is more concerned about playing left-wing politics than it is about the environment.

[farmfriend]

ping

[Extremely Extreme Extremist]

The Sierra Club is simply one of the Democrats liberal allies. Just like the NAACP pretends to care about civil rights and NOW pretends to care about the needs of women.

[KC_Conspirator]

What is up with Feinstein? About once or twice a year I agree with her on something and she seems like she makes common sense decisions. Last year it was when she called for the monitoring of foreign arab students studying in dangerous fields, like nuclear engineering. Then the professors came after her.

[Frohickey]

Sierra Club has no where to go other than the Democratic Party. Sure, they can go join the Green Watermelon party, but that would mean they go from having the ear of 1/2 the politicians, to none.

The two, Sierra Club, and Democratic Party deserves each other.

[SevenDaysInMay]

Elected representatives vote in Congress, not econazis.

[Slyfox]

I thought Feinstein was pretty brave in her effort to allow logging to prevent wildfires. Did I just say that?

[RoseofTexas]

OMG! Brings to mind the spiders in the Lost in Space movie where the spiders were eating their own!! YUCK!

[Carry_Okie]

What is up with Feinstein?

This one has to do with her ego. Wally Herger got DiFi involved with the Herger-Feinstein / Quincy Library Group legislation for the Plumas National Forest. The idea was to put a locally driven consensus process involving both timber interests and environmentalists in charge of forest policy.

Well, DiFi got it passed and the QLG spent several years consensing, with nearly every RICOnut demand and claim being refuted by hard science. So they sued anyway and rolled QLG into the Sierra Nevada Framework.

DiFi got stiffed in a classic bait and switch. She's rather ticked about it.

[razorback-bert]

GOP leaders .... blackmailed the Senate.

I knew that if I read far enought I would find the pubbies being blamed.

[leprechaun9]

Feinstein is full of B.S. (not the singer). No one in the Sierra Club has a vote in the Bob & Billie Club (formerly U.S. Senate), only Senators do!

When the pimps of the election industry focus their efforts on solving the problems of our country, instead of pursuing a political agenda for their job security, then MAYBE things will change. But I believe that there is little hope of that happening in the forseeable future!

[marsh2]

We don't have any mills anymore that will take big timber. They were torn down when they lost their supplies. They will not rise like phoenix without the guarantee of at least 10 years steady supply of timber and a more favorable market price in a global market glutted with Canadian timber.

We had a small timber sale to clear trees for safe approach to an airport. They had to ship the bigger trees they harvested hundreds of miles down the coast and the mill was reluctant to buy them.

We are communities trapped at the mercy of the Senate surrounded by overstocked dense forests with dangerously thick underbrush and ladder fuels. We already have had firefighters die here. If it continues to be dry, there is no doubt people in these communities will be at high risk of injury and death, along with destruction of their property.

Here we are in the midst of all this timber, and we are hoping to cobble together an economy based on value added products from small diameter trees and hog fuels for small cogeneration plants.

Here is what I am talking about http://www.sisqtel.net/~armstrng/salmonriv.jpg

Imagine you are a small community along the river and there is only the river road in or out.