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To: skinowski who wrote (93044)7/30/2012 12:31:36 PM
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I was thinking the other day it would be a good thing if the capital of the U.S. was shifted to another part of the country every so often. When DC decided cows were bad and they started tinkering with BLM rules and fees they neglected to mow the grass. In the fall tall dry grass can easily catch fire and did - any kid from the area would have known that.

Profiting from global warming and climate change... February 10, 2011

Western Ag Reporter

Steve Studer, Fishtail MT

Does your newspaper have the resources to investigate the enormous profits being made from the “Global Warming-Climate Change” controversy? The Forest Service and BLM in particular seem to be using Al Gore’s “Inconvenient Truth” as a convenient excuse in explaining why their wildland fires are burning so large. Unfortunately for us, the profit margin in wildland “firefighting” is better than for the Mexican drug cartels to smuggle drugs into the United States.

Every spring the Forest Service comes to our fire department to tell us that the “Global Warming-Climate Change” is causing the increase in wildland fire activity. Yet the Forest Service-BLM will never admit how the drastic reduction in cattle grazing and the elimination of logging has resulted in an enormous increase in the fuel load on our public lands. Now, trees and brush are growing and dying where trees and brush have never been seen before.

The fires of 1910 occurred approximately 50 years after the elimination of the bison. Yet none of our federal scientists seem to recognize that, prior to 1860, the millions upon millions of bison had kept the fuels grazed off and tramped down. The federal scientists also seem unable to recognize or admit that the smoke from just one wildland fire dwarves the emissions from all human activities.

Why is it that, prior to the 1988 fires, “Global Warming-Climate Change” never existed? The Forest Service-BLM seem to be using this situation as a self-fulfilling prophesy: The more smoke from wildland fires, the more “Global Warming-Climate Change” = even more wildland fires = more overtime pay.

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