Forest Thinning Saves Lives

[Kulturkampf]

So forest companies, private entities meant to make profit for their shareholders... Must do official government bidding? Sounds like socialism if I ever heard it.

Canada has officially adopted a policy of forest thinning because it does prevent extreme forest fires. You can argue a lot but you are arguing against lawmakers in Canada and the US which have adopted such policies -- and in this circumstance, policies which saved lives.

[derrida]

what's so unreasonable about expecting a timber company to perform preventative maintenance on stocks of land so as to prevent loss of those resources? the government spending money to do things which should be done by the private sector? sounds like socialism to me.

forest thinning is necessary as it stands but only because natural burn cycles have been disrupted.