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Forest Service must reach out locally,
new chief says
(Note: Mention of 'conspired'! But wait! When our side says it,
there is immediate action to marginalize our credibility by mention
of black 'copters and 'conspiracy theorists'. Now Bosworth uses it
to make recreationists out to be the bad guys. Why don't more folks
'get it' -- that his agenda is / instructions are to take control of
as many acres of America as his agency, the Forest Service, can get?
Like the NPS, USFWS, etc., working in choreographed synchroninity
with The Nature Conservancy and other 'land trusts' and 'NGOs',
these agencies are NOT planning to be benevolent toward vacationers
and other recreationists. Those that think 'off-road vehicle users'
are going to be the only ones targeted for removal from
mega-millions of acres -- are enjoying a pipe dream. Like logging,
or commercial fishing, or ranching, or mining, or farming, each
facet of recreationist is planned to be removed from as much of
America as possible. This is the truth, no matter how it may be
'pooh-poohed' by federal employees now. Said employees continue to
count on the proven short memories of Americans. Bosworth, with his
own words -- "eco-restoration" -- is telling us that he is
an implementer of The Wildlands Project. Why are so few actually
hearing him? He's 'selling' facilitated consensus -- 'conflict
resolution' and major use of language deception, but some of the
agenda is actually said, though few folks 'red flag' when they
hear/read it. "Eco-restoration" means the retaking of
resources under the guise of "restoring" to
"pre-European settlement" time. That means: NO EUROPEAN
INHABITANTS of America! It means no European-descendants owning
their own farms, ranches, mills, mines, etc.
"Eco-restoration" is as warm and fuzzy as a HAIRBALL! His
paying 'lip service' to 'the public' and 'public involvement in
decision-making is just that: lip service. The ink is already dry on
the agenda and it will continue to be implemented at the expense of
the responsible resource providers of America and those myriad small
rural towns that are being 'rurally cleansed' by
"eco-restoration" -- until many more folks learn about
language deception and how it is employed to paralyze the intellect
and put emotions before cognitive thought processes.)
November 20, 2004
By Joe Baird jbaird@sltrib.com
The Salt Lake Tribune
Salt Lake City, Utah
To submit a Letter to the Editor:
Boise, Idaho - A changing culture and changing values, coupled
with different land conditions and uses have all
conspired to alter the mission of the U.S. Forest Service,
the agency's chief said Friday.
But how well the Forest Service adapts to this evolution will
be dependent on how willing it is to include the public in
its decision-making process, Dale Bosworth told the annual
Conference on Fire and Forest Health at Boise State University.
"We are now in an era of eco-restoration. This is what
people want today from their public lands," Bosworth said.
"We have to manage for long-term eco-health while involving
the public in the decision making. What we leave on the
land will be much more important than what we take."
The old Forest Service emphasis on fire suppression and
timber sales, the chief noted, has given way to forest
management, particularly as it relates to the urban
interface -- where metropolitan America meets the forests
-- and the demand put on forest land by outdoor recreationists.
"I believe we're at a crucial moment in history," Bosworth
told the conference, sponsored by the Andrus Center for Public
Policy.
Essentially, the agency head said, the Forest Service faces
four challenges:
what he called the "unnatural accumulation" of forest
undergrowth, which have now become fire fuel; the toll invasive
species such as the bark beetle are taking on forest lands;
the continuing loss of open space, particularly forest coverage
and rangelands;
and, the people-related pressure being put on the land
by recreationists, particularly off-road vehicle users.
"People will love the forest to death if we let them,"
Bosworth said. And given the scale of the challenges, he said,
it "leaves us with no choice -- we all have to work together.
'Community-based forestry' is easy to say. It's much tougher to
pull off. There are areas in which we have a ways to go to
achieve true collaboration. But we can improve
the way we work together.”
To that end, Bosworth acknowledged that the Forest Service must
be more flexible than in the past, but believes that by doing a
better job of reaching out --
especially at the local level -- that the public trust can be
restored and problems can be solved.
"In any decision we make we must have a broad base of
public support. And that has to include local people, the
people who live in and around the area that's being impacted,"
he said.
"There is more awareness of the problems now. What we need
are solutions."
Copyright 2004, The Salt Lake Tribune.
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