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Much of what is happening in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Montana</st1lace></st1:state> today was predicted by many professional foresters that were discredited 20 years ago by anti-logging interest. Perhaps the Grand Canyon situation you are dealing with is different but the current state of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Montana</st1lace></st1:state>’s forest health is almost entirely a man made situation as a result of poor management decisions in the past. It is difficult not to be irritated when you read a news release like the one that started this thread and you know this could have been avoided. Now my federal tax dollars will be thrown at the tail end of a problem in the hope of stopping it … and it sucks when you have no choice but to pay for something you tried to warn against.
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> </o>Much of what is happening in <st1:state w:st="on"><st1
lace w:st="on">Montana</st1lace></st1:state> today was predicted by many professional foresters that were discredited 20 years ago by anti-logging interest. Perhaps the Grand Canyon situation you are dealing with is different but the current state of <st1:state w:st="on"><st1lace w:st="on">Montana</st1lace></st1:state>’s forest health is almost entirely a man made situation as a result of poor management decisions in the past. It is difficult not to be irritated when you read a news release like the one that started this thread and you know this could have been avoided. Now my federal tax dollars will be thrown at the tail end of a problem in the hope of stopping it … and it sucks when you have no choice but to pay for something you tried to warn against.