On Thu, 05 Dec 2013 14:31:59 -0500, "Pete C." >
wrote:

>
> 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.

We need more forest rangers, not private business goons raping the
land.

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