However, we still have millions upon millions of downed trees from Helene; and while the rains have wet the earth, the wood will continue to dry for years. It would be helpful if we could remove some of that fuel before the next round of fires.
The Trump administration decided to help with that -- it's been surprising how much more the Federal government has been wanting to help since the new administration came in. Enter the usual suspects:
C'mon guys. I love the forest as much as anyone, but these trees are already dead. Let's get as many as we can before they burn up the world. There's no way we'd get them all up anyway, but potentially we could reduce the fire hazard at least a little bit.
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Someone should point out that the decaying wood releases greenhouse gasses and contributes to global warming. The logging companies are saving the planet!
I don't try to understand environmental activist groups any more. I'm a conservationist, and an environmental historian, and their arguments make no sense.
LittleRed1
You're both assuming these are, in the main, honest people. They're not. Their moves are all about exercising their power and the ego rush they get out of being as obstructionist and trouble-making as they can.
The honest ones have already solved our ecological problems: acid rain, exposing supersite pollutions, NOx smog problems.
Now they're just bent on causing trouble with their global warming/coming Ice Age nonsense.
Eric Hines
Yep. The alleged harms the green-reds are worried about now are so minute as to be un-measurable. I used to think they just did not understand the law of diminishing returns. Now I think their stock in trade is nanny state obstructionism, regardless the ostensible cause.
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