Blame Forest Service for fire

If the Forest Service had auctioned off (not tried to sell to low-ball bidder, or tied it up in litigation, i.e., stymied sale by “abuse of the legal system” by environmental groups and the EPA itself) the 700 acres of trees in the Snider area that were at the START of the Copper King Fire THREE weeks ago (EAST of Thompson River) could have been in the stage of re-planting, instead of being burned to cinder.

As I write, it is NOW probably OVER 3,200 acres of cinder and soot. Tens of thousands of mature trees burned, and who knows how many tons of CO2 went in the air to rival Obama, DiCaprio, and Gore’s?

I seriously doubt that the U.S. Forest Service gives a rat’s behind about sustainable forestry any longer. Only about their employees’ pensions.

The state could be up by hundreds of thousands of dollars for local school districts by what just burned in the Thompson River “Copper King Fire” alone. But, no. The system is rigged. Phony groups get to sue on behalf of mostly out-of-state MEMBERS who have ZERO stake in local educational and economic systems. It is time for this BULL to stop.

WHY was the U.S. Forest Service established?

To provide a “sustainable” harvest of timber products for the 50 states. NOT to provide habitat for politically driven endangered this or that. Nor to drive people from their lands for the sake of grizzlies, grouse and wolves.

It is unconscionable that the Congress of the United States, which is charged with protection of ALL states’ sovereignties will continue to allow silly sophists to impose their will through what is now a corrupted judicial system — a system over which Congress holds ALL power by the Constitution of the United States — and to allow judges to “impose” mischief on our people. —Jim Greaves, Thompson Falls