An Interesting Statistic

The American Lands Council posted the following on Facebook today:

In his opening statement today, Federal Lands Subcommittee Chair Tom McClintock advocated for better management of our national forests. He pointed out the fact that the 80% reduction in timber harvested from our national forests directly coincides with a dramatic increase in acreage destroyed by catastrophic wildfire. McClintock stated, “All excess timber comes out of the forest one way or another: it is either carried out or burned out. But it comes out.”

This is the link to their home page. This is their organizational statement:

American Lands Council is a non-profit organization of individuals, counties, business, and organizations that was formed in 2012. The Mission of the American Lands Council is to secure local control of western public lands by transferring federal public lands. ALC is leading the charge by giving leaders the knowledge and courage to battle for the only solution big enough to ensure better access, better health, AND better productivity through the Transfer of Public Lands (TPL) to local stewardship. 

The federal government is not managing public land in a way that serves the public. Lumber is a renewable resource.

There Is NO Common Sense In Government

A website called The Red State Report posted an article Tuesday on recent events in Tombstone, Arizona. During 2011, a shortage of water developed in Tombstone due to the Monument Fire, which destroyed a lot of the desert vegetation around the town. The fire was followed by a record monsoon season which caused mudslides, sending car-sized boulders tumbling down the hillsides. The mudslides crushed the waterlines that supply the town with water and destroyed the reservoirs. Since Tombstone is in the middle of the Arizona desert, the town’s water supply is vital to the survival of the town. Part of the pipes that supply the town with water are buried under more than ten feet of mud and some are suspended in mid air because the ground was washed out from under them.

Normally, the town would simply get to work, clean up the mess, and move on with life. Unfortunately, the Obama Administration {and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)} have chosen to get involved.

The article reports:

“federal bureaucrats are refusing to allow Tombstone to unearth its springs and restore its waterlines unless [city officials] jump through a lengthy permitting process that will require the city to use horses and hand tools to remove boulders the size of Volkswagens.”

The article states:

There is evidence that the Forest Service under Barack Obama’s leadership is adopting a comprehensive plan “to clear federal lands of any private or non-federal uses.”

Ranchers in the West,  have been told to give up their various access and water rights, ski resorts have faced problems with access to federal lands and Indian tribes have been dealt the same blow.

The federal government owns about 30 percent of the land in the United States–most of it in the western part of the country. This is another example of federal government overreach. It is time to elect a President who respects the Constitution.

 

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