Reply #3: That's a heck of a result! [View All]

[gristy]

Me thinks some voters are PAYING ATTENTION for once.

Should the Senate pass the President's Healthy Forests initiative to protect the nation's forests from heightened threats of wildfire?

YES: 24%
NO: 76%

2027 total vote

Some criticisms leveled at this legislation:

* The plan does not put enough emphasis on protecting residents from immediate risks.
* Increased logging called for in the plan could actually worsen the problem of forest fires.
* The plan could limit public input into Forest Service decisions.
* The plan could limit use of the courts to challenge the legitimacy of fuel reduction projects.

http://www.ems.org/wildfires/healthy_forests.html

Will we ever see the following poll:

Should the Senate pass the President's Healthy Forests initiative to provide the timber/lumber industry access to our national forests so as to "thin" the trees, thereby increasing the threat of wildfires after dense undergrowth grows in place of mature trees. But note that timber company stock owners will benefit!