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The Fox · Joined: 23 Jun 2006 Posts: 112

Like Sherman Marching Through Georgia
Private landowners face severe penalties if found guilty of or even suspected of causing harm to wildlife or their habitats under the Endangered Species Act. However, W. Russell Tyler writes in the Charleston, South Carolina Post Courier, that an agency of the powerful central U. S. government apparently is not bound by the same constraints. Mr. Tyler expressed his disgust with a recently reported U. S. Forest Service burn in which 1,600 acres of the Francis Marion National Forest was fire-bombed using "a helicopter to maximize the heat and to burn the area in one afternoon, creating an absolute inferno." Tyler castigated the Service for carrying out its "growing season burns" during nesting season and when new-born white-tailed fawns are the most helpless. "In this same brush," says Mr. Tyler, he and his partner who perform prescribed burns for private landowners, "…find nesting songbirds, nesting wild turkeys and nesting bobwhite quail and newborn fawns." "A local ornithologist tells me you can expect to find in those wild woods an average of one songbird nest per two acres," Tyler continued. "For 1,600 acres this is a loss of 800 nests losing all hatchlings unable to fly. This sad scene is repeated each year as the federal government burns millions of forest acres in the name of environmentalism.

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