ARE THEY EFFECTIVELY OPPOSING THE WILDERNESS DESIGNATION?
Gary Sprung, the legislative and policy representative for IMBA (in a conversation on the phone with the Director of the Warrior’s Society during our fight against the wilderness designations here in the Cleveland National Forest), excused the environmental industry’s push for wilderness areas in Orange County that did not meet the criteria for wilderness by stating “You can understand their concern now that the new administration (Bush) is going to mow down the forests.” Hello Gary – there’s nothing to log in the Trabuco District of the Cleveland National Forest! I guess he and his environmental friends prefer the forests burn down – and take all the endangered species with them. An article in the paper during the recent fires stated that the California Condor recovery may be in jeopardy because of the threat of fire burning down their habitat. Of course if our forests do burn down they’ll have to be closed to public access so the can be rehabilitated. And if this rehabilitation is li
