@NoWarningShot_@MrAndyNgo@yemiformayor Yemi is a socialist who scrubbed his social media before the election. This is my city and he's not a good person. Nor is he a good mayor.
Looking for a good laugh, Coloradans? Then read about this letter to the US @forestservice from our Democrat members of Congress: https://t.co/K3QQPDHM2r
Here's what makes it hilarious, but also cynical and disingenuous. This "call to action" in response to rising #wildfire risks comes 30 years too late to make much difference. And it comes from politicians who have a long history of backing the โhands-off, don't-touch-the-forestsโ philosophy championed by their allies in the Green Lobby, which has ruthlessly and systematically stymied repeated efforts to combat the forest health crisis.
Here's a little history lesson for these Johnny-come-latelies: some Forest Management 101 for our clueless members of Congress.
Colorado's national forests have been in crisis for decades. We've had a mountain pine beetle epidemic since 1996, which has ravaged millions of acres. Aspen groves also began dying off in the 1990s. Spruce beetles began tearing through our forests in the 2000s. Annual reports by state and federal forestry folks have been screaming warnings since the 1990s.
Were none of these members of Congress awake through any of this?
Decisively responding to the crisis became impossible as long as Gang Green opposed every forest thinning or restoration project as a backdoor โlogging project.โ The self-styled tree-huggers became forest destroyers, ironically, while Democrats cheered them on and bolstered their nutty narrative.
So here we are, March of 2026, more than 30 years after the crisis became obvious in Colorado, and the party thatโs been complicit in the destruction of these forests is cracking the whip and demanding swift and decisive action by an agency totally hamstrung by decades of Green Lobby obstructionism? Howโs that for irony and hypocrisy?
Suddenly, the obstructionists who made proactive forest management impossible are trying to flip the script and pose as heroes, by begging the U.S. Forest Service to finally start managing them again. Theyโre demanding "responsible" forest thinning and fire mitigation projects, like they just discovered both concepts.
I'm not buying this sudden epiphany. Nor should you. One low snow year and they're hitting the panic button, โswinging into actionโ to combat a crisis decades in the making. Itโs cynical butt-covering by pols who've been in the Green Lobbyโs pocket for years, doing zilch to spur federal action while our neglected and mismanaged forests burned and rotted.
Itโs too little, too late, poseurs. The forest management professionals in the Trump administration are 6 or 7 steps ahead of you on this. Take your complaints to @SierraClub, the @WildernessSociety, @Earthjustice, and @NRDC โ since THEY stand as the biggest obstacles to turning things around. Change THEIR minds about the benefits of proactive forest management and maybe we could gain real ground on addressing the crisis.
#copolitics #coleg @forestservice@RepJoeNeguse@RepPettersen@SenatorBennet@SenatorHick