Saturday, September 17, 2011

Details of how the Feds blinked in Otero. "Monday morning it looked like they wanted to throw us in jail and file injunctions."

Deal legalizes tree-cutting event

Rardin has said he and commissioners could no longer stand idly by without doing something to help protect the health, safety and welfare of county residents, and improve forest watershed in communities within and around the forest.

Due to extreme drought conditions and the Mayhill Fire, the Lincoln National Forest was closed between May 12 and June 19, but fire restrictions were not lifted until Aug. 18.

Rardin said commissioners and Pearce were going to go ahead with the tree-cutting plan on Saturday regardless if the agreement was in place or not.

"I am very happy we're going ahead this way because we're working together. That's what it takes," he said. "We can't be lone rangers, but if we have to we will. We will go forward. Congressman Pearce will still cut the first tree."

6 comments:

Anonymous said...

Oh my God! People acting sensibly without a Forestry degree!!!! What ever shall we do?

Pat H. said...

Modern forestry degrees are all about how to not use the forests at all, but return them to a state of nature with no humans at all.

Have any of you read a National Geographic Magazine lately?

They've been taken over completely by the anti-human brigades. All the forests are almost gone, the seas are dying, global warming (now climate change) is real.

All coordinated by the Wildlands Project.

Anonymous said...

I'm surprised the greens didn't file an injunction. I'm sure they will set about with some kind of law suit soon - the commie bastards.

Anonymous said...

"Working with the U.S. Attorney's Office has been a privilege and a pleasure," Rardin said. "I am pleasantly surprised. They're really professional at what they do. (snip) This agreement is good for both sides -- the county and the Forest Service. In the end, the Forest Service and the county will work together for one goal."

County commissioner Ronnie Rardin may have set a world record for suck-up in a single paragraph.

Tennessee would probably elect him for governor...

III N TN

TPaine said...

Looks like the feds are now saying that they didn't blink, they allowed the folks to stage their little protest on a few acres of land that really didn't matter anyway. So was this really a stand-off that we won, or was it meaningless? Looks like the latter to me.

Anonymous said...

TPAINE,
Do you actually expect any one, not just the feds, to say, "Well, we wussed out but you just wait".
Of course not, they have to down play it in an attempt to save some face.

Tom Bogan