Michael Reagan
says that it is the environmentalists fault for the San Diego fires.
"He's right. These fires which have killed a number of people and devastated 800 square miles of Southern California, leaving it black and smoldering, and destroyed more than 1,600 houses are solely the fault of the tree-hugging Greens who hate humanity while claiming to love the very forests their own insanely destructive policies are burning to a crisp."
"The fact is, we haven't taken care of our forests because environmentalist radicals have been winning the day in Washington for far too long. Roads going into our forests have been closed and as a result we can't access our forests and firefighters can't access them, all because the Greens want to put everything back the way it was before we evil humans arrived on the planet and began to despoil the earth the Greens worship as some kind of goddess.
If you look at the videos of what's burning in California you see that about half the trees about to go up in flames in some of the fire zones are dead from a beetle infestation because for a number of years now we haven't been allowed to go into our forests and thin them and prune them and take care of our them as we take care of a garden or farmland."
And so on it goes.
If my house had burned down in the Cali fires. I'd rather take my beef to the developers, or anyone else who would put their subdivision right on the edge of forest land. It's called suburban sprawl
He says it's the 'Tree huggers' fault, but they are one of the primary proponents of controlled burns. These burns scrub out all the underbrush, which is the real reason these forest fires start, and they also try and keep developments away from the forests, which is the reason they spread through human populations so devestatingly. We can't do the controlled burns as often anymore because the logging companies don't want to see prime forest land burn down that they would rather harvest. They want to protect these forests for their own long term interests. It's the logging companies, Michael, that are making our forests such a hazard for wild, out of control, fires.
If you look at pictures of Scripps ranch, you see it isn't the forests that did it. All the trees are still there, green and growing as they ever were. The rich peoples houses with the banned cedar roof tiles are the ones that are burnt to the ground. The fire, after getting out of the forest confines, just jumps from house to house like dominoes. Get the houses away from the forests, that is what will stop the devestating (to humans) fires.
Forests don't need to be taken care of as a garden does. Dead trees, even a mass of them, are still part of a viable ecosystem and provide habitat for forest animals. And the "black darkened mountains" are fertile ground for new growth. Many trees can only germinate after a fire. Even a fire of this magnitude, is good for the forests.
The birds and flies and frogs and owls will be back when the trees come back, and natural biodiversity among trees is back. That is something you DON'T get when you clearcut and a lumber company only plants one type of tree back or a development or Wal Mart goes in it's place.
They the real meat comes. He starts pushing Bush's "Healthy Forest Initiative", which is an oxymoron. It allows lumber companies to build roads through and clearcut stands of old growth trees and replace them with homogenous saplings. That does not create a healthy forest.
Hey Michael Reagan, how many homes must burn, how many people must lose their valuables, how many lives must be threatened before you foolish bastards learn how to live in harmony with nature? Quit building your homes against a forest because it's picturesque and you want to live away from other people. That's the whole reason this fire turned out the way it did. Because of a few shortsighted people, how many hundreds of homes were destroyed this week? And you have the gall to blame this on us?
Review:
Smokey the bear works for the lumber companies, lumber companies have successfully lobbied to stop controlled burn, this includes underbrush clearing
developments that abut our national forests provide a crucial link in the spread of fire, without them connecting the rest of a town to the forest that catches fire, the fire would never threaten a single person's life who was not inside the forest bounds.
But Michael doesn't know this I think. He just knows the party line and spouts whatever crap he can think of the support his stand without having to actually understand anything