Government incompetence in managing the people's natural resources and its collusion with eco groups

I went to church this morning and the sky was blue and clear and so beautiful.  The air was cool and it was great hearing the little birdies singing.  After a great sermon, I walked out of the church and all that beauty was stifled and absent!  Smoke was filling the air.  I knew I was smelling and seeing our once wonderful forests turned to smoke.

Carbon and many other particles, once a tree, a bush or probably a little critter, filled my nostrils and it was not perfume.  How sad that every year we see these terrible fires, the result of over regulation and pandering to environmental nuts.  Our little Tahoe National Forest has a plan.  They have a real thick plan.  It is a multimillion dollar plan.  It tells us everything we are allowed to do with our own land.  It tells us all we need to know, well at least what the all seeing, all caring government will let us see, about the things that can happen and not happen, on our property, the people's property.

Fire is the wild card isn't it?  For all the eco brainiacs putting into print their two bits on how we can walk, run, ride or traverse the "people's lands",  none of it matters a rat's rear end when the fires begin.  It is a masterful game and the losers are all of us Americans who actually care about the "people's lands".  Every state and federally owned land (well I still can't figure out how they "own" the public's land) is subject to NEPA or CEQA (unless they exempt themselves which they often do) and yet for all the billions we have spent on "plans" nothing compares to fire for shaping the "people's lands">

Fire suppression has been a policy for many years so we get the buildup of brush and dead trees and the like.  A match and whoosh, we see them in our breathable atmosphere.  Then we see the same management plans prohibiting the culling of trees for their wood used in all kinds of construction (it is almost impossible to harvest the burned timber after a fire as the plans get sued by the Sierra Club etal) .  So, the plans that prohibit fires leave in place the very things that fuel them!  What a bunch of dumb ass people do we have in charge?  Then, when you add in the "non=disturbance" of the people's lands" for the "Endangered Species", you now can see why humans have so mucked up the forests.  Then there are the "wilderness" areas all over the country.  You can't even fly over them for goodness sakes.  Even the military is subjected to no flyovers (hell even Iraq had a "flyover" zone!) of some of the "people's lands".  My God, how could all this happen?

Ever since environmental groups found out they could make gazillions of dollars hoaxing and guilting  the people into saving some critter or creek or bush, the die was cast.  Whenever they need money to perpetrate their fraud of "caring", they roll out a big furry animal or sometimes a red legged frog or sand fly to jinn up the sympathy.  This loosens the checkbooks and fills their coffers while the loggers, miners, mountain bikers, fishermen, equestrians, dredgers and  and able bodied hikers are denied the use of their own property. What a scam eh?

So when I see the air filled with the remains of my forests, the trees and critters roasted into carbon particles, I thank the environmental nuts and their pals running our Forest Service, BLM, Army Corps  and all the other alphabet agencies.  We pay them to screw over our greatest assets and they get away with without concern for being held accountable for their disasters.  Something has to change or we will have simply and charred landscape from sea to shining sea if it doesn't.