I seemed to hear a big round of applause from Farkistan  when the Forest Service suggested cutting down all the trees in California to protect us from wildfires.  It was cool then, since you have a house in California.  But since you'd never live in a backwards spot like Utah--what the fark is wrong with those people?  Mormon cretins.

Communist Middleschool Student: make me some tea: WTF assholes, let nature do its thing and quit screwing with it.
That's kinda the problem. For decades the policy was 'all forest fires should be put out.' but fire is essential the the lifecycle of forests.
So now forests are too thick and laden with underbrush, resulting in bigger, damaging, fires.

That's not true either.  I worked for those farkers.  That is the "company line" they have been using for 30 years now to explain the Yellowstone fires, without treading into any potentially hard political territory, and oh look--now everyone in the country repeats it as gospel.  It's not true. Stop saying it.

You want to know why we didn't manage the forests right?  MONEY.  IT'S ALWAYS MONEY.  They couldn't manage millions of acres of forest with a truck and one police officer.  But it didn't matter, because the forests were just there, anyway.   Sometimes they were logged, sometimes they got made into campgrounds, sometimes they just breathed for us--and are thus  worthless, right, Fark?  All those trees, just serving as background for no one's Instagram.  What is the POINT?

Then a couple of other things happened also:  Nice elite types, after making fun of rural rednecks for their entire lives, started feeling a little crowded, as anyone would start to feel when they want everything.  Millions of them   moved into the urban/wildland interface, as it's called, right up against the forests, and now you can't do controlled burns anywhere near THERE.  Or over there, or all of Colorado, just cross it off.  Those people are on their own.



George made a bundle in internet shopping, and he came out here and  built the biggest farking log cabin in Montana, right up against the largest wild area left in the US.  There's an awful lot of pine beetle killed trees up in there, and to a trained eye, George's house looks like a bonfire waiting to happen.  But he don't care. the trees are here for HIS journey into the wild, and they will serve him, as everything is supposed to do, because he's a MAN.

George's house burns down the next year and he says, Why the FARK didn't the Forest Service take care of all these dead trees and undergrowth and make it safe in here?  Ignoring the fact that before he and a couple of others moved in that valley, those fires could have burned that whole area out, and everything could  follow its natural cycle, like the elk that used to live there, but now had to move out so that George and his friends could move in.

So now we just have millions of acres of dead trees, because George and his ilk can't stop taking and barging in and claiming things, and trying to buy the very air out of the sky and make it theirs. What they want, they will get--then blame someone else  when it doesn't work out. Then  expect them to take care of the trappings of their  excessive lifestyle, no matter how much it costs.   You have insurance.

If you don't like the idea of wildfires burning down your house that you built way too close to the elk highway. then you can take your spoiled urban ass back to where you came from, the place where you helped make all those engines of destruction that farked up our forests forever.  It's forever now, with climate change.  We can't fix this,. and you can't wait to blame it all on someone else.  And the government is always good, aren't they?  You can do that forever too.  And you will, rather than look at your own actions.

Thank god Elon ruined the night sky with all those farking satellites, or you wouldn't be able to live way out there like that. Like a real man, who minds his own business and takes care of his own business. But you need to be connected, or you can't watch your stocks.
Pussies. Pussies who don't understand the natural world and don't understand anything.  You're an animal.  Start respecting where you came from, or  you're going to find out what it looks like when nature loses all respect for YOU.

I'm kidding--you are definitely going to find out.  How would you like to handle it? The same way you're doing it now?  Good luck.

"The trees in our over-grown forests and other non-native, noxious trees along our rivers and streams are consuming trillions of gallons of water that would otherwise flow downstream to the Great Salt Lake. Many of our forests are already in desperate need of tree thinning due to high and extreme fire danger," states Theodore's Jan. 13 letter, which was cosigned by several Yellow Cake members and rural county commissioners.

These people are so well-informed, they don't know the difference between a forest and millions of invasive salt cedar trees--that were introduced by humans and spread by humans.  I know this problem.  I cut down a lot of salt cedar trees.  Tamarisk trees.  You know what?  You can't get rid of them, and they have destroyed the waterways.  They have roots that can outcompete anything else growing there, they love water, and they can deal with the high salt content in the dry lands.

If you go to Moab and see the mess lining the river?  Yeah, that's mostly salt cedar.  None of it used to be there, but now it's everywhere and it follows the water, even into the desert.  I cut down a bunch of salt cedar in the desert that was growing out of an aquifer.  Nothing else could reach that water except that patch of tamarisk.

The Forest Service and every other federal agency does weed control.  It's a big deal, since they know about salt cedar and things like that.  And they haven't made a dent in the salt cedar problem.

But if you all really give a crap about the environment, we could start up crews to go kill salt cedar, and make the world a better place. You could get funding for that.  With enough manpower, we might even be able to clean up some of the worst disasters that we've created, and save the Great Salt Lake, anyway.  Clean up the Moab riverway, so that we can build some more campgrounds for the elites.

Yeah. you're not going to do that, are you?  You're dreaming about your cabin in the urban/wildland interface, where you can escape all this man-made bullshiat.