JoeK Wrote:
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> There are a ton of dead Engleman Spruce above
> 8500ft in the national forest. Those trees were
> killed by bark beetles when George W Bush was
> president. Doesn't matter how much it rains. Those
> dead trees are a danger until felled or removed.
> And above 8500 ft is mostly where the rr runs.
> Serious dereliction of duty upon the forest
> service to not clean up the Engleman mess.
Costs $$$ to mitigate and the increase in fire fighting expenses has been sucking them out of
every other program the NFS has, including ones needed to prevent bad fires in the first place.
Hank