https://x.com/isaiah_p_taylor/status/1877049594313314525
Unfortunately yes. In 2007 the Sierra Club successfully sued the Forest Service to prevent them from creating a Categorical Exclusion (CE) to NEPA for controlled burns (the technical term is "fuel reduction"). The CE would have allowed the forest service to conduct burns without…
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Environmentalism is a death cult that hates human flourishing
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Update: each prescribed burn takes 4.7 years just to get through environmental review
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Human health and safety seems like an easy exemption for lighting a preventative fire
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I swear to Christ environmentalists are the lowest form of life
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This is progressivism manifest
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What is the charge? Eating a meal? A succulent Mexican meal?
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Get your hands on my shenis!
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And people always say Krauts love bureaucracy
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You do though?
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I've been called out for not participating by capybara so here I am participating
If you look at the next tweet listing all the shit prescribed burns have to document, you can see that each of them individually sound like a good idea to do/check before actually burning down random shit.
However, all of them together, along with with addition of requirement of traceable paperwork trail for each line explode into a process that takes years.
What is the solution here? Is there a way government can find a balance between having to codify requirements on paper in letter of law to prevent miscommunication and just asking the BLM to apply "best effort" to consider each requirement?
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The solution was to let lightning strikes burn a bigass piece of forest, and the injuns would clear underbrush sometimes. That doesn't need an approvals process.
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All feeding the environmental industrial complex
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