Reply #48: Yes, the Park Service

[sandnsea]

Working hard clearing the brush. This is a whole lot more than just George being a 'working man'. First, he's doing the thing that every farmer and rancher knows he has to do, keeping his property cleaned up. That helps lock in all those midwest farming votes. Second, with the Park Service person there, he's promoting the notion that cleaning underbrush is the way to keep land healthy. It all works in there together, this is to reinforce the idea that the forest program is a 'thinning program' and anybody who has ever owned a piece of land, or gardened even, knows you have to weed and clear brush. Even the Park Service knows that. Why can't the stupid environmentalists figure that out?

Farmers and ranchers also know you burn. Why can't environmentalists figure out how to get THAT message out? We've got to start talking to real working people, that's all I can figure out.