During a Sunday interview in Breitbart Trump’s sleazy Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke lashed out at “environmental radicals” as scapegoats for the deadly recent blazes in California.
BY TIMOTHY CAMA
Days after touring the damage of the Camp Fire, the deadliest in California’s history, Zinke went on Breitbart News Sunday and declared “it’s not the time for finger-pointing” on the causes of the fires.
But minutes later, he put the blame squarely on environmentalists, contending that they stood in the way of clearing brush, doing prescribed burns and other actions.
“I will lay this on the foot of those environmental radicals that have prevented us from managing the forests for years. And you know what? This is on them,” Zinke said.
“We have dead and dying timber. We can manage it using best science, best practices,” he continued. “But to let this devastation go on year after year after year is unacceptable, it’s not going to happen. The president is absolutely engaged.”
The Trump Administration demonstrated little regard for “using best science, best practices,” when they slashed funding for forest management programs in the Forest Service.
I used to work in the woods, replanting clearcuts. Always on Forest Service land. The only reason I can see for slashing these programs (including trying to cut seven air firefighting tankers for California) is political retribution, and vindictiveness on the part of Republicans in DC.
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Breitbart is a safe space for the real environmental radicals like Ryan Zinke, Scott Pruitt, and Andrew Wheeler. They reject the overwhelming scientific consensus on Global Warming.
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