Are you kidding me?! Does he think cutting down all of our forests is going to help pay off the debt from the war? Trying to ban same-sex marriage, cutting down the national forests so there can be paved roads...is he trying not to get re-elected?

This makes me really sad.
All this beautiful land going to be cut down because our president is a fucking tool.

fuckin nice!

yeah then again who the fuck cares we will all be dead in twenty years because of nuclear holocaust

Fucking pave it! I dont care...

wait... yeah i do... Cause im campin in one this weekend...

But fuck it. Build a highway

The most disgraceful thing I've heard about the Bush Administration's attempt to remove restrictions from logging acres and acres of beautiful forest is that they're doing it in order to protect forests from forest fires.

These people are dispicable.

maybe bush knows he is a tool, and is doing all this stuff on purpose, because, like...if your going to go down, go down burning?!??!?!?! and give whoever is going to win, more issues to deal with, so they EFF up and look bad so there party get's re-elected in 4 years when they say stuff like

ooo, kerry can't protect forrests from forrest fires, remember FOUR YEARS ago, we tried to put that bill down. booyaaa

least, thats what i think is happening, whether it's being thought out or not, i have not a clue

He makes me so sad. He's okayed chopping down an Alaska rainforest too. Where was he when I was in kindergarden learning that cutting down the rainforest is NOT okay!?!?

yet another reason bush will lose in november.

Here's the thing, cutting down some of the forest could be good. Sure, it isn't good press to say Bush is going into National Forests to cut down trees. The thing is that, if loggers take down the medium to small trees (which, granted, they probably will not), the instance of huge and devastating forest fires will be significantly lessened. The problem with Bush's position in logging is that he has traditionally not differentiated between old growth and younger trees.
So yeah, while I think that cutting down some trees could actually be a good thing, Bush's plan has failed in the past and I'm not optimistic about this because it seems it will inevitably lead to exploitation of more natural resources in protected areas under the precedent that the roads are already there.

I don't believe the rage thats growing. What a schmuck.

You know lain, this world is going to be really lonely and boring with just humans in it.

Depopulation over deforestation please.

I always thought that was an absurd argument. Forrests existed long before logging, and fire's happen from time to time, people who live in the forrest assume the risk of that possibilty, besides in dry years the fires are ussually set by human carelessness anyways. So maybe a crackdown on ciggeretes and bonfires in the forrest, but logging isn't the answer.

It isn't absurd, really. Fire suppression has allowed forests to become massively overgrown. Allowing forests to return to their natural regime of periodic fires at this point is to have these huge, devastating fires. Removing underbrush and smaller trees is to allow the forests to return to a "natural" balance. Yes, it's unfortunate that the forests are in their current state, but further suppression/lack of action leads to news-headlining fires.

omg, can we get this crazy fuck out of office yet?!

yea but are highways and cars a product of nature? Most fires that do break headlines because idiots build thier homes way too close to forrest. Enviromental planning involves taking everything into account..such as temperature changes due to 'people's industry'. Because we know we fucking with the climate here, its doesnt make sense as a long term investment to have developments and more so homes into harm reach of a fire after logging takes place.