http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2013/11/02/congress-logging-bills_n_4204526.html?ir=Green&ref=topbar
RENO, Nev. -- RENO, Nev. (AP) — More than 200 biologists, ecolo
gists and other scientists are urging Congress to defeat legislation they say would destroy critical wildlife habitat by setting aside U.S. environmental laws to speed logging of burned trees at Yosemite National Park and other national forests and wilderness areas across the West.
this is the end game of deregulation, they will encroach on all land where they think there is something to be exploited without researching it,
and without deference to who is affected and ultimately killed they would merely be collateral damage and the cost of energy that only benefits them and big oil who repays them for their compliance to put us in harms way.
The experts say two measures pushed by pro-logging interests ignore a growing scientific consensus that the burned landscape plays a critical role in forest regeneration and is home to many birds, bats and other species found nowhere else."We urge you to consider what the science is telling us: that post-fire habitat created by fire, including patches of severe fire, are ecological treasures rather than ecological catastrophes, and that post-fire logging does far more harm than good to the nation's public lands," they wrote in a letter mailed to members of Congress Friday.One bill, authored by Rep. Doc Hastings, R-Wash., would make logging a requirement on some public forestland, speed timber sales and discourage legal challenges.
it's all about the Benjamin's for them and their benefactors with nothing for you but sickness and the neighborhood ER which would be too full from your next door neighbors being poisoned too. but it's that or vouchers if you elect them. and given their record for not giving us what we need the voucher would be meaningless.
i posted this on this blog 2 years ago and still relevant,
Saturday, May 14, 2011
ULTIMATE POETIC JUSTICE
Hello,what if all the republicans against healthcare time in office runs out and they are forced to enter work force without insurance buying power of gov. employees then loose that job and can't afford insurance because the voucher program they passed is insufficient? "POETIC OR WHAT"
Posted by nick johnson at 10:08 AM
