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Thread ID: 16622 | Posts: 18 | Started: 2005-02-06
2005-02-06 23:53 | User Profile
Bush Seeks $867 Million Budget for Forest Thinning
'WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The Bush administration will ask Congress to increase funding to $867 million in fiscal year 2006 for[B] a plan to help reduce the risk of wildfires in federal forests, a senior administration official said on Thursday.[/B]
The U.S. Agriculture Department's Forest Service division and the Interior Department, which work together to fight forest fires, received $811 million in the current budget year for the forest management plan.
Environmentalists have criticized the program as a way to give logging companies more access to timber under the guise of forest protection.
The proposed increase will be part of the federal budget request that the White House will submit on Monday to Congress, which will spend months debating and modifying the budget. The 2006 fiscal year begins on Oct. 1.
The forest management program, approved by Congress in 2003, aims to cut procedural delays at federal agencies and develop new ways to reduce the threat of wildfires on 10 million acres of fire-prone forest over several years.
Mark Rey, the U.S. Agriculture Department's undersecretary of natural resources, told reporters that about $492 million of the requested $867 million in 2006 would be used to remove hazardous underbrush from more than 4 million acres of land. The rest would be spent to improve the landscape and wildlife habitats.
[B]Rey said the program will focus on thinning forests near homes. By the end of fiscal year 2006, more than 50 percent of areas treated will be where people live. " [/B]
[url]http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/nm/20050203/sc_nm/environment_budget_dc_1[/url]
2005-02-06 23:56 | User Profile
Why?
2005-02-07 00:09 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Okiereddust]Why?[/QUOTE]
Isn't everything Bush does evil?
2005-02-07 00:11 | User Profile
Gabrielle,
I just love how Bush supporters ape the Clinton defenders. I don't hate Bush, but I do admit to not liking him. He is the Republican Jimmy Carter when you get right down to it. The only difference is that while Carter was more like a deer in the headlights when action was called for, Bush tends to act first before thinking things out it seems to me.
2005-02-07 00:12 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Gabrielle]Isn't everything Bush does evil?[/QUOTE]
Well, how does one answer that? He's either a fool or a knave. Take your choice.
2005-02-07 00:43 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Gabrielle][B]Rey said the program will focus on thinning forests near homes. By the end of fiscal year 2006, more than 50 percent of areas treated will be where people live. " [/B] [/QUOTE]
What as there first? The trees or the homes? Let the home owners clear the trees themselves.
2005-02-07 01:35 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Happy Hacker]What as there first? The trees or the homes? Let the home owners clear the trees themselves.[/QUOTE]
LOL. The trees...
They can't... they would be arrested.
2005-02-07 01:58 | User Profile
Well Gabriele you wanted Bush for a second term so deal with it, you wanted him and you got him.
2005-02-07 02:47 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Sertorius]Gabrielle,
I just love how Bush supporters ape the Clinton defenders. I don't hate Bush, but I do admit to not liking him. He is the Republican Jimmy Carter when you get right down to it. The only difference is that while Carter was more like a deer in the headlights when action was called for, Bush tends to act first before thinking things out it seems to me.[/QUOTE]
Bush supporters think that Bush is a conservative. My question: what is Bush "conserving?" In fact, what are American conservatives "conserving?" They say "yes" to massive immigration, they say "yes" to women working outside the home even if they don't have to, they say "yes" to Jews, Blacks and Mexicans being employed in top positions in our government. In fact, I can't see how conservatives are conserving much of anything. All they care about is Israel, big capitalism and low taxes. There is more to being a conservative than that.
2005-02-07 03:02 | User Profile
Sadly Franco, I have to agree with you. For a number of "conservatives" this is the case. As for others, well, that is the power of fearmongering for you, i.e., "we can't allow Kerry to win!" and just plain old kneejerk reaction to seeing an "R" next to a candidate's name. It just goes to show that "liberals" don't have a monopoly on stupidity.
2005-02-07 03:31 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Gabrielle]Bush Seeks $867 Million Budget for Forest Thinning[/QUOTE][img]http://www.whatdoesnotchange.org/archives/012003.jpg[/img] [center]Clearcut in NW Oregon[/center]
2005-02-07 04:18 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Gabrielle]Isn't everything Bush does evil?[/QUOTE] No, just the evil things.
2005-02-07 12:54 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Ponce]Well Gabriele you wanted Bush for a second term so deal with it, you wanted him and you got him.[/QUOTE]
You miss your wittle Kerry. :wink:
2005-02-07 13:10 | User Profile
[QUOTE=albion][img]http://www.whatdoesnotchange.org/archives/012003.jpg[/img] [center]Clearcut in NW Oregon[/center][/QUOTE]
Thanks to Bush, no doubt.
2005-02-08 02:01 | User Profile
Gabrielle,
Well Bush has done a few (very few) good things.
[QUOTE]The Bush administration will ask Congress to increase funding to $867 million in fiscal year 2006 for a plan to help reduce the risk of wildfires in federal forests, a senior administration official said on Thursday.[/QUOTE]
The Forests are mess and something need to be done. In some place that used to have 50 trees per acre, now have over 1200! The logging companies should pay the forest service to thin Forests. The government should Not spend tax money on the Forests. The Forests should make money.
2005-02-08 02:05 | User Profile
Related thread:
The "Greens" Fires [url]http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1535&highlight=fires[/url]
2005-02-08 12:28 | User Profile
[QUOTE=Faust]Related thread:
The "Greens" Fires [url]http://www.originaldissent.com/forums/showthread.php?t=1535&highlight=fires[/url][/QUOTE]
Excellent! Thank you.
2005-02-09 01:05 | User Profile
And they are going to get alot more messy before it's done. There are men within the Forest Service, who know what needs to be done, but their position is that they have few years until retirement. And they aren't willing to jeopardize it by making wave with the femshevik environmental faction. Who knows if it do snow soon Montana, Idaho, and Colorado may burn like they did in 2000.:thumbsup: [QUOTE=Faust]Gabrielle,
Well Bush has done a few (very few) good things.
The Forests are mess and something need to be done. In some place that used to have 50 trees per acre, now have over 1200! The logging companies should pay the forest service to thin Forests. The government should Not spend tax money on the Forests. The Forests should make money.[/QUOTE]