Enviro Nazi Jihad Continues in Montana
Elliston Face logging plan goes to back burner again
By EVE BYRON, Helena IR, Thursday, August 26, 2010 [here]
For the fourth time, the proposed 763-acre Elliston Face Hazardous Fuels Reduction Project has been withdrawn from the Helena National Forest’s imminent to-do list.
Duane Harp, the Helena district ranger, said he pulled the project from consideration after realizing, based on maps forest officials weren’t aware of, that the project would reduce elk hiding cover below standards set in the Helena National Forest plan. That was a point argued in legal documents filed opposing the project, and Harp said he didn’t think they could prevail in court.
“When we first calculated the Elliston project, it came out that it was within the standards of the forest plan,” Harp said on Wednesday. “At a later time, when we were doing the roadside hazard tree removal analysis, we found a map Fish, Wildlife and Parks had put together that showed more roads on private property in the Elliston area than what we had analyzed. Using that map, we redid the hiding cover analysis and found we exceeded the standards.” … [more]
See: Incinerating Elliston [here]
The irony here is that most of the logged areas, right over the ridge from Elliston, have too many elk. There is no dearth of elk near town due to the wolf pressure elsewhere. It’s the WOLVES, stupid, that are extirpating the elk, not logging!!!!!!!!!!!!
The elk have nothing to do with this lawsuit. This is an enviro nazi jihad aimed at promoting holocaust and driving human beings off the land.
