Congress should:
- recognize that a government monopoly is not necessary to fight fires
- keep their oath to "support the Constitution" by leaving
fire fighting, rescue, and redevelopment to non-federal agencies
- privatize the U.S. Forest Service
- sell federally owned surplus lands so that private ownership can
preserve them better
Wildfires
- Growing
Threat of Wildfire Government by L.K. Samuels
- Fires of the Feds: How
the Government Has Destroyed Forests
- Big
Government, Big Fire
- Land
Socialism: Playing With Fire by Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr.
- Cato-at-liberty
» Heck of a Job, Smokey!
- BURN
BABY BURN - The California Celebrity Fires - Greg Palast
- As Southern
California Burns - Mises Economics Blog
- Cato
Scholar Comments on California Fires
- The Fires this Time
- Let 'em Burn
- Mega
forest fires -- caused by global warming or the Sierra Club?
- Acton
Institute: Free Markets Best Protect the Environment
- Another one I experienced personally while I was Secretary of
the Interior was when Yellowstone Park burned. That fire was
partly the result of a longtime policy of the Department of the
Interior and the National Park Service to fight man-caused fires
but not naturally caused fires, and also not to do anything in
the park that altered the natural windfall, loss of limbs, and
so forth, from trees. The result was that over the decades the
park had a forest that was getting older and older, trees were
dying and becoming standing snags waiting to be ignited by
something. When this combined with long dry spells and high
winds, the resulting fires ultimately burned over half that
park. -- Donald P. Hodel
- The cure for
wildfires ... acronym soup
- Ah, here's the
problem with the California fires
- The Rich and
the Fires
- The Victorian Bushfires: How
Environmentalism Leads to Disaster - Ben O'Neill - Mises
Institute
Fire Protection
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