Clearcuts, Gifford Pinchot National Forest. Photo: Jeffrey St. Clair.

Every Creation of Nature that inhabits a public forest governed by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS) or Bureau of Land Management (BLM) is being systematically displaced, seriously harmed, and murdered in cold blood by federal government agents.

Bulldozing roads and clearcutting our public forests is incredibly barbaric. Please try to imagine the homes of pine squirrels, pygmy owls, goshawks, or migratory, interior forest songbirds raising their young in a native forest being clearcut, masticated (mechanized pulverizing of trees and brush into “mulch”), and/or burned alive. Only scorched bare earth remains.

Government forest management operates like a plantation and land-management corporation. The U.S. empire was built to dominate and exploit, not coexist. Empire’s planned collapse is now in full liquidation mode, on the ‘downlow,’ but directed and relentless.

Federal and state agents and their paid collaborators in local government, industry, and Big Green corporations (controlled opposition) all march in lockstep to a legal concept I call Presumption of Management. Presumption of management conditions (brainwashes) managers (predominantly bureaucrats, foresters, and civil road engineers) and directors (politicians who write forest management laws) to believe they are acting in the best interests of the common good and public shareholders. Sadly, nothing could be further from the truth. Presumption of management aims to preserve artificial (man’s imaginative fictions) and commercial decisions made by those in charge. In this Alice in Wonderland world of destruction and death, forest management contains no moral consideration whatsoever or any substance of the Natural Processes of Creation and Renewal.

In 1905, the management of the forest reserves (renamed national forests in 1907) was transferred from the Department of the Interior to the Department of Agriculture, which instituted our corporation nation’s colonial, utilitarian and commercial concerns. Our nation’s plantations were carved out of wilderness and expanded with criminal intent as expressed in behavioral patterns of bad faith, self-interest, reckless intent to deceive, acting beyond their regulatory authority, and blatant conflict of interest. Racketeering, corruption, and gross mismanagement is now practiced uniformly across hundreds of million acres of federal public land with relative impunity.

“It’s not personal, it’s strictly business.”

– Michael Corleone, The........

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