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October 25, 2007
Runaway Wildfires, Another Consequence of Moonbattery
Moonbats have blamed the California wildfires on global warming, the war in Iraq, homebuilding, and even lawn-watering. Before they get around to pinning them on tax cuts and our slowness to socialize medicine, this might be a good time to point out that if anyone is to blame for runaway wildfires, it is moonbats themselves, who have used environmental nuisance suits to prevent forest thinning. From The Heartland Institute:
The GAO [General Accounting Office] examined 762 U.S. Forest Service (USFS) proposals to thin forests and prevent fires during the past two years. According to the study, slightly more than half the proposals were not subject to third-party appeal. Of those proposals subject to appeal, third parties challenged 59 percent.
Appeals were filed most often by anti-logging groups, including the Sierra Club, Alliance for Wild Rockies, and Forest Conservation Council. According to the GAO, 84 interest groups filed more than 400 appeals of Forest Service proposals. The appeals delayed efforts to treat 900,000 acres of forests and cost the federal government millions of dollars to address.
Forest Service officials estimate they spend nearly half their time, and $250 million [of your money] each year, preparing for the appeals and procedural challenges launched by activists.
"The report demonstrates that the appeals needlessly delay federal efforts to prevent wildfires, and if the process is not streamlined, millions of acres will be lost this summer," said Senate Energy Committee Chairman Pete Domenici (R-New Mexico).
"The American people will no longer tolerate management by wildfire," Domenici added.
"This finding is nothing short of appalling, especially when you think of the catastrophic losses suffered in last year’s horrific fire season alone," said House Resources Committee Chairman Richard Pombo (R-California).
"These were not only losses of forest, endangered species, and wildlife habitat, they were losses of human life and family property," Pombo said.
Not even the environment benefits from the psychotic strain of moonbattery known as radical environmentalism.
Hat tip: Michelle Malkin, on a tip from Scott.
Posted by Van Helsing at October 25, 2007 7:47 AM
Comments
there are rules for the care of the land in the bible.
i've heard that some native american tribes of yore would burn portions of the land every seven years for higher crop yields for the future.
those dayz are gone with all the envirowhackos on watch.
Posted by: nanc at October 25, 2007 9:43 AM
I'd bet that fire created more C02 than all the cars in our country for the last 10 years or so.
We better call the Goracle and get him to add another 10 feet to the sea level prediction.
At least if man-made global warming turns out to be true we can blame the moonbats for their forestry skills.
Posted by: Me at October 25, 2007 2:53 PM
The First Peoples actually did it to clear out woodlands and forests, which didn't support much game for them to hunt. They did it for centuries until the White Man came and conquered the land, then the Green Man came and conquered the legislation.
From Moonbat-opposing author, Michael Crichton:
"And by now we are about ready to reap the rewards of our forty-year policy of fire suppression, Smokey the Bear, all that. The Indians used to burn forest regularly, and lightning causes natural fires every summer. But when these fires are suppressed, the branches that drop to cover the ground make conditions for a very hot, low fire that sterilizes the soil. And in 1988, Yellowstone burned. All in all, 1.2 million acres were scorched, and 800,000 acres, one third of the park, burned."
Full speech at http://www.crichton-official.com/speech-complexity.html
Cartoon on the real cause of the wildfires for you, from Ryskind:
http://web.mac.com/ryskind/Site/Fresh_Meat/Entries/2007/10/25_Fire_Proof.html
Posted by: Scott at October 25, 2007 6:35 PM
