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2018-08-12 Government

California Wildfires Caused By Radical Environmentalists, Not Climate Change

h/t Gates of Vienna
The United States Forest Service was originally founded to protect forests from the ravages of fire to preserve it for future generations. That thinking was abandoned in favor of the flawed "no-use movement," or the "rewilding" theory, which blames humans for the "degradation of our planet." "Rewilding the land can repair damage we’ve caused and reconnect us to the natural world," National Geographic claims.

For decades, traditional forest management was scientific and successful ‐ that is until ideological, preservationist zealots wormed their way into government and began the 40-year overhaul of sound federal forest management through abuse of the Endangered Species Act and the no-use movement.

Traditional forest management had simple guidelines: thin the forest when it becomes too difficult to walk through; too many trees in the woods will compete with one another, because the best trees will grow at a slower rate.

...In 2012, the Obama administration issued a major rewrite of all of the country’s forest rules and guidelines, adding so many rules, regulations and layers of bureaucracy, grounding all forest management to a halt. McClintock said that to even cut one tree down in the national forest, forest managers were forced to apply to the federal government for a study. The other big problem is these burdensome regulatory requirements greatly inflate the cost of forest management, McClintock said. "Between the studies and litigation, the process was endless," McClintock added.

When forest managers attempted to address public lands ravaged by disease, beetles or fires, they were met with a wall of bureaucracy. "Public lands take years’ worth of environmental review for studies," McClintock said. "By then, the timber has lost most of its commercial value. Essentially, the public land is abandoned. The laws make it cost prohibitive to salvage."

...We are now living with the result of radical environmentalism ideology ‐ that we should abandon our public lands to overpopulation, overgrowth, and in essence, benign neglect, McClintock said. "Forest fires, fueled by decades of pent up overgrowth are now increasing in their frequency and intensity and destruction."

He added, "excess timber WILL come out of the forest in one of only two ways. It is either carried out or it burns out."

Posted by g(r)omgoru 2018-08-12 03:43|| || Front Page|| [14 views ] Top

#1 I think a variation on Kornbluth's Marching Morons population reduction scheme would do it. Announce that an efficient cellulostic ethanol process has been developed. Build giant incinerators and announce that states need to "send in their deadfall wood" to get in on the ~~kickbacks~~, er, subsidies. There will not be a stick the size of a golf pencil left in the woods by sundown.

Posted by M. Murcek 2018-08-12 07:52|| 2018-08-12 07:52|| Front Page Top

#2 an efficient cellulostic ethanol process has been developed

Give the contributors a quart to take home.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-08-12 09:11|| 2018-08-12 09:11|| Front Page Top

#3 I recall talking with a fellow with the U.S. Forest Service about the 2012 about the fires in Plumas Co., Ca. He said the policy had changed regarding controlled burns as the result of pressures by environmentalists. He said the risk of such fires could be significantly reduced by controlled burns. The rank and file understood this.

Posted by JohnQC 2018-08-12 09:11|| 2018-08-12 09:11|| Front Page Top

#4 Terrorist arson burners, ala Gaza.

Posted by Skidmark 2018-08-12 10:18|| 2018-08-12 10:18|| Front Page Top

#5 of the fires currently burning in CA, two arsonists have self identified

also, a lot of the land in CA that is burning is not managed by the Forest Service but instead by the US Bureau of Land Management or the various State agencies -- they may have similar policies as the Forest Service or maybe even more strict

Posted by lord garth 2018-08-12 10:28|| 2018-08-12 10:28|| Front Page Top

#6 Two things: 1) pretty damn sure the new regs apply across all fed agencies - that was the point. 2) since 2012 CA has experienced wild fires every month of the year.

Posted by Rex Mundi 2018-08-12 14:14|| 2018-08-12 14:14|| Front Page Top

#7 Given as how the environazis won't let the DOI or BLM spray for bark beetles our forests are dying out
There are about 125 million dead trees in the various forests in California caused by the bark beetle. You can go into the Sequoia National Forest and the is utter desolation and few trees

Posted by Sock Puppet of Doom 2018-08-12 18:51|| 2018-08-12 18:51|| Front Page Top

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