SOS Forests

Forest Apocalypse Now

The US Forest Service has gone out of it’s freaking mind. Oregon is now the new Let It Burn Laboratory, and our watersheds are targeted for incineration.

The horrendous new “plan” to incinerate Oregon forests was accidentally exposed by Oregonian reporter Matthew Preusch yesterday, the very day that the Mitchell watershed was deliberately incinerated by insane nutwads from the Ochoco National Forest. Some revealing excerpts [here]:

Some Oregon wildland fires, rather than being suppressed, are allowed to burn

MATTHEW PREUSCH, the Oregonian, August 18, 2008

Concerns about budgets, forest health and overstocked woods lie behind the interest in the management technique

BEND — When a lightning storm rolled across central Oregon this month, firefighters quickly mobilized to quash the scores of new wildfires.

But on a handful of fires they chose to hold back, using instead a new tool that allows them to designate certain low-risk blazes as beneficial to the forest.

“We really like it,” said Chris Hoff, fire management officer for the multiagency Central Oregon Fire Management Service. “It gives us the opportunity to treat areas with natural fire that before we couldn’t.”

Last month, the Ochoco National Forest completed a plan for managing wildland fires, the fifth national forest in Oregon and Washington to do so. Others are the Okanogan-Wenatchee, Wallowa-Whitman, Deschutes and Willamette national forests, said Glen Sachet, regional spokesman for the U.S. Forest Service.

Guess what, Chris. WE REALLY DON’T LIKE IT WHEN YOU INCINERATE OUR FORESTS.

No “plan” was vetted through any NEPA process by the Ochoco NF. Nothing appears on their website regarding any “plan.” That kind of clandestine activity is patently illegal. But the “Little Hitlers” apparently have some secret document that they think justifies their deliberate incineration of Oregon watersheds.

The Bridge Creek Fire is now 4,900 acres (7.7 sq miles). Most of the ground burned is PRIVATE PROPERTY, not Federal land.

Where is the doc that says the US Government can now burn public and private land with impunity? You know, the one that the Little Hitlers in the USFS really, really like?

Why not come clean and produce the alleged secret document that gives you such a BIG ASS THRILL?

Did the Little Hitlers have a party to celebrate their FOREST APOCALYPSE PLAN? Did they wear little party hats and eat some cake?

More from the Oregonian article:

That gives forest supervisors the ability to change the way they manage some fires, making forest health, not suppression, the primary goal [said "Little Adolf" Sachet].

“Right now these things are creeping around, cleaning up those heavy piles of downed material. It’s going to create more grasses, it’s going to reduce the risk of losing those stands,” said Jeff Walter, supervisor of the Ochoco National Forest.

“More forests are creating their implementation direction, so we’ll see this tool in use on more forests in the future,” Sachet said.

Jeff “Felon Firebug” Walters is the raving lunatic that decided to fry the Mitchell watershed and thousands of acres of private property ten days ago. To Felon Firebug our public forests and private homes are nothing more than piles of trash waiting to be burned up, by him. He has a secret plan that allows him to go “off the reservation” and Burn, Baby, Burn whatever and wherever he feels like it.

Right now these “things,” meaning Felon Firebug’s catastrophic conflagrations, are destroying forest health, watershed health, community health and individual health. And Felon Firebug’s “things” are also costing the taxpayers millions of dollars to extinguish because Felon Firebug didn’t put them out when his “things” were small.

In June we sent the following Freedom of Information Act Request to the Ochoco NF:

The Western Institute for Study of the Environment (WISE), a 501(c)(3) non-profit organization based in Oregon, hereby requests, pursuant to the Freedom of Information Act, copies of the following documents:

(1) The current Fire Management Plan for the Forest, together with any and all amendments to the Plan within the last five years;

(2) Any documents reflecting or referring to any guidance from the Wildland Fire Leadership Council relating to fire management; and

(3) Any documents concerning Appropriate Management Response (AMR) and/or Wildland Fire Use (WFU) as implemented with respect to any plan or action within the Forest.

WISE requests a waiver of any FOIA fees, as it is a nonprofit entity that expects to use the materials received to contribute to public understanding of forest fire management issues. The Executive Director of WISE, Mr. Michael E. Dubrasich, is an expert concerning these issues and is fully capable of reviewing and evaluating the materials received, and contributing to public understanding through the analyses of such materials. WISE operates that websites www.westinstenv.org, which it will use to publish analyses of the materials received. WISE is actively involved with these issues and has substantial influence concerning them; Mr. Dubrasich having recently testified before Congress concerning them.

However, Felon Firebug decided to blow off FOIA too, since he routinely violates federal laws with impunity, and sent us nothing, not even his vaunted party doc that they really, really, REALLY like because it gives them the “right” to incinerate the whole forking state if they feel like it.

More from the Oregonian:

Experimentation with wildland fire use started in wilderness areas several decades ago, and the program grew steadily until 1996, when three such fires escaped containment in Oregon, two burning onto private land, said Louisa Evers regional fire ecologist for the Forest Service. Following a moratorium, some forest managers again started using the designation.

“This year is starting off to potentially be one of our bigger years in the Pacific Northwest, and the program as a whole is growing across the West and is actually moving into the Southeast,” Evers said.

Little Lulu’s fires are also growing and incinerating private property that DOES NOT BELONG TO Little Lulu or the the USFS. And it didn’t start this year. Why just last year Little Lulu, Little Adolf, and Felon Firebug burned over 100,000 acres of private property in Central Oregon in their party fire, the Egley Burn.

The suppression versus beneficial burn debate arose again earlier this month after a helicopter crash killed nine firefighters in Northern California. Critics questioned why firefighters were being asked to battle remote blazes that did not threaten structures or private property. In that case, fire managers said the risk to public health from poor air quality as a result of the numerous fires was among the reasons for attacking the fires.

That’s a dirty, stinking lie. The Northern California fires were not and are not being attacked. From the date of ignition the USFS has been actively EXPANDING those fires, not attacking them. The firefighters who died were nowhere near the fire. Their job was to build dozer trails from which more fires were set. It’s called backburning. The USFS has prolonged the NorCal fires for two months and burned hundreds of thousands of forested acres to ashes with backburning. There has been no direct attack. The Oregonian printed a lie.

I am sick and tired of the Nazi sympathizers at the Oregonian who promulgate dirty, stinking lies for the express purpose of justifying wholesale incineration of America’s forests, watersheds, and communities.

More from the dirty, stinking, lying Oregonian:

Before marking a fire for wildland fire use, land managers must consider such factors as the time of year, proximity to private land, potential for fire growth and social and economic impacts of a fire . If all those factors suggest there is no major risk, Hoff said, firefighters can manage the fire differently.

But that doesn’t mean they just let the fires burn.

In the case of four fires in the Ochoco National Forest burning in wilderness areas, a specially trained team has been called in from around the region to monitor the blazes and, if necessary, try to check or direct their growth using burnouts or hand crews. If one of the fires jumps predetermined containment areas, the focus returns to suppression.

That’s what happened during the weekend when winds caused one of the fires to grow to more than 5,000 acres and cross onto private lands. The focus turned to putting the fire out before it damaged the city of Mitchell’s watershed, a house and a fire lookout.

“The wind shifted and came out of the southeast, and it went exactly where we didn’t want it to go,” said fire team spokesman Robin Vora. “The objective changed from wildland fire use to all-out suppression.”

Well, whoopsie says Robbie “Burn Boy” Vora. We goofed up. We burned up thousands of acres of private lands and the Mitchell watershed, too. We didn’t mean to.

Like HELL you didn’t. The secret, dirty, criminal plan all along has been to send holocaust raging through Oregon’s forests, watersheds, and communities. Burn Baby Burn. The Little Hitlers have nothing but evil intent. They are forking scum. The USFS needs to be kicked way the hell out of Oregon right now, before they do any more holocaust destruction.

We want our forests back. The Federal Government has no right to that land any more. They have squandered their ownership privilege by engaging in a mad, apocalyptic, incineration frenzy. The USFS needs to shut down and get out. Just back away. Leave Oregon immediately. We will care for our forests. We do not want you here anymore. Bug out. Split. Make like a tree and leave.

The USFS is done in Oregon. Goodbye. Good riddance.