Posted by
Arnie on Tuesday, June 26, 2007 3:31:56 PM
So when you cannot clear out the dead wood in the forests, remove trees for a fire lane or even clear the brush growing at the base of those beautiful trees, what can happen? The lake Tahoe fire that just kept raging on destroying hundreds of homes and risking lives. But what is that to environmentalists?
The residents who have lost their homes and had their lives turned upside down
"descended on the South Tahoe Middle School auditorium Monday night, wanting to be heard in the face of their losses." They are an angry bunch.
And if there was an object of scorn in the crowd, it was the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency, a powerful bi-state environmental land use agency charged with managing the resources of the basin.
When a speaker mentioned the agency, the crowd responded with a chorus of boos. "What a joke!" yelled one man. More....How many of those environmentalists lost their homes? It's just homes, that's all. And memories. And a dream. And a huge investment. And now, a big huge disruption of lives. And beautiful trees gone forever. All those trees and nature they wanted to protect. Gone in the face of extreme ideology. How many forest fires have there been because of these extreme measures to protect those forests?