Environmentalist policies against logging may have helped this summer’s Rocky Mountain fires to expand, experts told the Washington Free Beacon.
Steve Segin of the Rocky Mountain fire-incident team told the Denver Post, “we haven’t had a fire season this bad since… 2002.” According to the Incident Information System, 170,365 acres have burned this summer in Colorado alone.
Both President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney visited victims of the Waldo Canyon Fire, which became the most destructive fire in Colorado’s history.
Robert Zubrin, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and President of the aerospace engineering research and development firm Pioneer Astronautics, blamed environmentalists for the spread of these fires.
“They facilitated the spread of fire by keeping people from logging, adding firebreaks, and using pesticides,” he said.
Zubrin wrote a book on this subject, Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, which he will present today at the American Enterprise Institute.
Zubrin recently wrote that climate change does not explain these fires. “The culprits here … have not been humans, but Western Pine Beetles,” he wrote, which turned “over 60 million acres of formerly evergreen pine forests into dead red tinder, dry ammunition” for fires.
Zubrin told the Free Beacon that logging would solve the problem.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/the-beetle-burn/
Steve Segin of the Rocky Mountain fire-incident team told the Denver Post, “we haven’t had a fire season this bad since… 2002.” According to the Incident Information System, 170,365 acres have burned this summer in Colorado alone.
Both President Barack Obama and challenger Mitt Romney visited victims of the Waldo Canyon Fire, which became the most destructive fire in Colorado’s history.
Robert Zubrin, a senior fellow at the Center for Security Policy and President of the aerospace engineering research and development firm Pioneer Astronautics, blamed environmentalists for the spread of these fires.
“They facilitated the spread of fire by keeping people from logging, adding firebreaks, and using pesticides,” he said.
Zubrin wrote a book on this subject, Merchants of Despair: Radical Environmentalists, Criminal Pseudo-Scientists, and the Fatal Cult of Antihumanism, which he will present today at the American Enterprise Institute.
Zubrin recently wrote that climate change does not explain these fires. “The culprits here … have not been humans, but Western Pine Beetles,” he wrote, which turned “over 60 million acres of formerly evergreen pine forests into dead red tinder, dry ammunition” for fires.
Zubrin told the Free Beacon that logging would solve the problem.
Read more: http://freebeacon.com/the-beetle-burn/
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