EH - 90 : Enviropolitix

Joshua Frank goes into great detail on something dr. lenny was well aware of - there is no enviro-win in Washington. Big enviro spends its molly-coddling with the judiciary rather than the ineffective legislative branch and the overwhelmed dicotemy of the executive branch. The departments of interior and agriculture have political leadership and management career hoppers pulling to resource extraction and some long term civil servants under their 5th president that sort of blow in the wind. Most of the Carter starters are retiring and then we'll get on with the people added since Reagan took office. The one party system has no recourse and once the courts break through the legal wall erected the resource grab will go full volume.


And then same big enviros who held up the dike in court rather than bring any timber volume out off the forest will have shot off their foot instead of constructively focusing on methods to enable fire load hazard to be reduced on national forestland. By doubling the pressure on private timber by removing 50% of the land base, all non-urban, the big enviro just didn't listen to their science staff. If fedgov had actually done the surveys as required by law and discovered the wealth of value that the forest has to offer, beyond timber and wood products, We would be managing lands rather than watching them burn and fighting over the salvage. Managing for timber and other resources, like carbon sequestration, air and water purification, and energy storage.