Editor:
As a result of a partisan fishing expedition that masqueraded as a Congressional hearing on forest management in Montrose last May, Rep. Scott Tipton and some of his colleagues have introduced a bill that specifically calls for more state control on forest management decisions in high-risk areas on National Forest Service lands as well as lands under the BLM jurisdiction.
Coming after the disastrous Lower North Fork fire last March in Jefferson County that scorched more than 4,100 acres of land, burned 27 homes and killed two elderly citizens – the result of State Forest Service controlled burn on Denver Water Board land – the Tipton bill seems particularly ill-timed.
But then Mr. Tipton has never let nasty little facts stand in the way of his anti-environment agenda.
– Art Goodtimes, Norwood
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