Post by daubster on Sept 24, 2013 17:25:40 GMT -5
HOW THE FEDS HAVE TURNED FORESTS INTO TINDERBOXES
Over the past several months intense wildfires have been raging in 11 Western states, fueled by dense forests and underbrush. Wildfires in Colorado and in California have been the largest on record. The ferocious wildfire in Arizona took the lives of 19 firefighters. The one in California’s Sierra Nevada and Yosemite National Park is unprecedented with some walls of fire running through river canyons at heights over 300 feet. Nearly 3,700 firefighters have been battling these blazes. Why so many, and why so intense? The answer lies in federal destruction of private ranches and logging operations and in federal mismanagement of wilderness lands.
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Over the past several months intense wildfires have been raging in 11 Western states, fueled by dense forests and underbrush. Wildfires in Colorado and in California have been the largest on record. The ferocious wildfire in Arizona took the lives of 19 firefighters. The one in California’s Sierra Nevada and Yosemite National Park is unprecedented with some walls of fire running through river canyons at heights over 300 feet. Nearly 3,700 firefighters have been battling these blazes. Why so many, and why so intense? The answer lies in federal destruction of private ranches and logging operations and in federal mismanagement of wilderness lands.
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