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05-29-2006, 11:30 AM
The pust of environmentalism ideals out in the open.
From the DAILY STANDARD,
Fire on the Mountain
Misguided environmentalists may be the greatest threat to America's forests.
by James Thayer
05/25/2006 12:00:00 AM
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The Imperial Japanese Navy tried to burn down Oregon. It [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_United_States_territory_in_North_Americ a_during_World_War_II#Attacks_on_Oregon"]failed (http://www.weeklystandard.com/banman/banman.asp?Task=Click&ZoneID=35&CampaignID=332&AdvertiserID=99&BannerID=453&SiteID=0&RandomNumber=64818). Sixty years later, radical environmentalists almost succeeded.
The Los Angeles Times' banner headline read "REPORT OREGON BOMBING. Jap Aircraft Carrier Believed Sunk." It was September 15, 1942. A seaplane had been spotted near Mt. Emily, Oregon, nine miles north of Brookings. A forest fire had been started near the mountain. Harold Gardner, a forest service lookout, rushed to the area and quickly extinguished the flames.
Then a forest service patrol found a foot-deep crater. Nearby were forty pounds of spongy pellets and metal fragments, some of which were stamped with Japanese ideograms. A metal nosecone was also found.
That same day a Japanese submarine was sited in the Pacific thirty miles off the Oregon coast due west of Mt. Emily. An Army patrol plane bombed the sub, but results of the bombing were unknown.
Less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese had set out to strike a blow against the American mainland, but they failed to cause a massive fire in the dry Oregon forest.
Fast forward sixty years to July 13, 2002. An Oregon Department of Forestry pilot spotted a rising column of black smoke near Chetco Peak, not far from where the Japanese bomb had landed. The pilot immediately reported it to the dispatcher at Grants Pass. This fire would be named Biscuit 1.
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The calamity prompted the Bush administration and Congress to act about as quickly as Washington ever does. In August, while the fires were still burning, the president proposed his Healthy Forests Initiative, which Congress soon passed as the Healthy Forest Restoration Act. The president signed it into law on December 3, 2003.
Agitation by extremists within the environmental movement had produced decades of misguided attempts at forest management. The new law will make our forests less susceptible to catastrophic fires. But because the remedy involves a concept that is anathema to extreme enviros--logging--they oppose it, and are actively working to maintain our forests as tinderboxes
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The environmentalists claim to care about trees and animals.But they fight tooth and nail to reduce fuel load in the forests.It seems that THINNING the forest is a terrible idea to them.
Thinning the forest and leaving the bigger healthier trees in place would greatly reduce fuel load and better survive a fire.Thus a win/win situation.
The eco nuts have fought this well researched idea of thinning to promote forest health and reduce the fire damage with many court injunctions.
They are plain stupid because too often the ENTIRE section is then burned to the ground when a fire comes along.Fires so hot that even trees that would normally survive the low fuel fires would survive and scatter seeds to replenish the burned areas.Gets burned down as well.
Forest Thinning is a long known good fire management tool that gets thwarted by brain dead morons.
Environmentalism sure know how to destroy the forest.Just be an ignorant tree hugger and allow kindling trees stand in place dead or barely alive.What a bunch of stupid gians!
Environmentalism facism sucks.
From the DAILY STANDARD,
Fire on the Mountain
Misguided environmentalists may be the greatest threat to America's forests.
by James Thayer
05/25/2006 12:00:00 AM
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The Imperial Japanese Navy tried to burn down Oregon. It [URL="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attacks_on_United_States_territory_in_North_Americ a_during_World_War_II#Attacks_on_Oregon"]failed (http://www.weeklystandard.com/banman/banman.asp?Task=Click&ZoneID=35&CampaignID=332&AdvertiserID=99&BannerID=453&SiteID=0&RandomNumber=64818). Sixty years later, radical environmentalists almost succeeded.
The Los Angeles Times' banner headline read "REPORT OREGON BOMBING. Jap Aircraft Carrier Believed Sunk." It was September 15, 1942. A seaplane had been spotted near Mt. Emily, Oregon, nine miles north of Brookings. A forest fire had been started near the mountain. Harold Gardner, a forest service lookout, rushed to the area and quickly extinguished the flames.
Then a forest service patrol found a foot-deep crater. Nearby were forty pounds of spongy pellets and metal fragments, some of which were stamped with Japanese ideograms. A metal nosecone was also found.
That same day a Japanese submarine was sited in the Pacific thirty miles off the Oregon coast due west of Mt. Emily. An Army patrol plane bombed the sub, but results of the bombing were unknown.
Less than a year after Pearl Harbor, the Japanese had set out to strike a blow against the American mainland, but they failed to cause a massive fire in the dry Oregon forest.
Fast forward sixty years to July 13, 2002. An Oregon Department of Forestry pilot spotted a rising column of black smoke near Chetco Peak, not far from where the Japanese bomb had landed. The pilot immediately reported it to the dispatcher at Grants Pass. This fire would be named Biscuit 1.
snip:
The calamity prompted the Bush administration and Congress to act about as quickly as Washington ever does. In August, while the fires were still burning, the president proposed his Healthy Forests Initiative, which Congress soon passed as the Healthy Forest Restoration Act. The president signed it into law on December 3, 2003.
Agitation by extremists within the environmental movement had produced decades of misguided attempts at forest management. The new law will make our forests less susceptible to catastrophic fires. But because the remedy involves a concept that is anathema to extreme enviros--logging--they oppose it, and are actively working to maintain our forests as tinderboxes
(More in this page and also page 2)
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http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/255xnrqk.asp
The environmentalists claim to care about trees and animals.But they fight tooth and nail to reduce fuel load in the forests.It seems that THINNING the forest is a terrible idea to them.
Thinning the forest and leaving the bigger healthier trees in place would greatly reduce fuel load and better survive a fire.Thus a win/win situation.
The eco nuts have fought this well researched idea of thinning to promote forest health and reduce the fire damage with many court injunctions.
They are plain stupid because too often the ENTIRE section is then burned to the ground when a fire comes along.Fires so hot that even trees that would normally survive the low fuel fires would survive and scatter seeds to replenish the burned areas.Gets burned down as well.
Forest Thinning is a long known good fire management tool that gets thwarted by brain dead morons.
Environmentalism sure know how to destroy the forest.Just be an ignorant tree hugger and allow kindling trees stand in place dead or barely alive.What a bunch of stupid gians!
Environmentalism facism sucks.