sf wrote:
>
> Don't expect proactive burns in this day and age of
> Republicans strangling the budget, which results in layoffs and
> skeleton staffing of National Parks. We're lucky the Republicans
> haven't been able to sell off forestry land and they still exist.

You don't need to use tax dollars to let government employees play with
"controlled burns" that sometimes get out of control, cause air
pollution and waste resources. You can have private logging companies
pay to selectively harvest and thin the long overgrown forests, have no
fires to get out of control, produce no pollution and provide valuable
resources that can be used for such things as home building further
providing jobs as well.