I got this from a friend out there. Doesn't sound good. :(
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 2:37 PM
Subject: Montana ablaze..
To Slik: from Mike D
Right now over 300,000 acres are actively burning in Montana alone. Many of the fires are not being fought but are just being monitored. As the Palouse winds blow, the MT fires grow. Expect the number to reach over 400,000 acres in a day or two.
Last week US Forest Service Chief Gail Kimbell declared the Gila, Payette, and Bitterroot NF’s to be “Let It Burn Laboratories.” Kimbell issued this Proclamation with no public input, no NEPA process, no hearings, no EIS, no nothing. She just did it, and to blazes with the laws (and the forests). No enviro outfit will sue her either, because they like the idea of torching America’s public forests. Burn, baby, burn.
A 4.3 million acre Let It Burn zone has been established for the Selway Bitterroot, and at least 12 fires are blazing away unchecked there right now. Last year over a million acres of MT burned in wildfires. Expect a similar count by the end of this fire season.
Last year after the fires numerous "humanitarian" hunts were organized from MT to NV to mercifully slaughter elk, deer, antelope, and Bighorn sheep because the winter ranges were destroyed and those animals were certain to starve to death.
The Big Picture is one of charred wastelands roamed by starving wolves. That's the Final Solution for our public lands. But I am preaching to the choir here, with this e-list.