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Putting Out Forest Fires Should Be A Priority
Presidents have not been fighting forest fires raging in the West because there is no money and many administrations have not thought it
important to borrow money to put out fires.
US tax money has gone to start fires elsewhere in Iraq, Afghanistan, Libya,
Yemen, etc.
with drones and bombs and missiles owned by privateer profiteers. Individual
state firefighting planes were requisitioned for Afghanistan. Where
firefighting occurs
poisonous flame retardant chemicals are often dropped rather than water. Larger
capactiy water carrier planes have not purchased because they are manufactured
elsewhere.
Both the Dept. of Interior and the US Dept of Agriculture have actually started
fires with
'controlled' burns which the wind multiplied. 1.2 billion has been spent, a
paltry sum in relation to the problem.
Why is the West burning?
1. It is dominated by cattle, sheep, and bison rancher money and their power
with the Senate, House, executive, judicial branches of government and
federal agencies. These innocent mammals eat or crush sapling trees as they
graze, trees
essential through evaporation of an average 42 gallons of moisture daily, for
the rain cycle of
the planet.
2. It is possible that those whose countries have been set afire by Bush 1, Bush
2 and Obama create revenge arson in which innocents suffer.
And so hundreds or thousands of firefighters and in the last few years billions
of deer, bears, moose, wolves, coyotes, birds of many species, frogs, snakes,
fishes, various kinds of butterflies and bees, are burning to death or are
horribly burned. The streams in which the fish swim suffocate them from
mudslides and ash.
Fires raged in Mt. Hood National Forest in Oregon, Selway Bitterroot
Wilderness in Idaho, Condon Montana, Lincoln Oklahoma, Cameron Louisiana, and
many other places.
