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Community => Advocacy, Agencies, Access => Topic started by: mkcj on September 16, 2017, 04:26:52 PM

Title: Good news for our forests...I hope
Post by: mkcj on September 16, 2017, 04:26:52 PM: https://www.doi.gov/pressreleases/secretary-zinke-directs-interior-bureaus-take-aggressive-action-prevent-wildfires
Title: Re: Good news for our forests...I hope
Post by: Southpole on September 16, 2017, 05:03:38 PM: :tup: :tup: :tup:
Title: Re: Good news for our forests...I hope
Post by: hunterofelk on September 16, 2017, 06:21:18 PM: Sounds good. Sounds expensive. Doubt the money will be appropriated.
Title: Re: Good news for our forests...I hope
Post by: cougforester on September 16, 2017, 06:44:55 PM: Quote from: hunterofelk on September 16, 2017, 06:21:18 PM
Sounds good. Sounds expensive. Doubt the money will be appropriated.

Cheaper than fighting fire! Hope this actually gets going.
Title: Re: Good news for our forests...I hope
Post by: Elkaholic daWg on September 17, 2017, 08:41:34 AM: https://www.change.org/p/us-forest-service-allow-the-global-supertanker-to-fight-fires-in-oregon
Title: Re: Good news for our forests...I hope
Post by: JimmyHoffa on September 17, 2017, 09:02:06 AM: I agree, sounds like a reasonable interior sec.
Title: Re: Good news for our forests...I hope
Post by: bigtex on September 17, 2017, 09:17:09 AM: We'll see what happens, most of the big fires in the west occur on US Forest Service lands which this order wouldn't apply to. This order only applies to BLM, Fish and Wildlife Service, and Park Service lands. It doesn't apply to US Forest Service, state, local lands.