No, the Air Force didn’t illicitly use this land for a bombing range. This is the handiwork of the taxpayer funded Ely BLM treatment-industrial complex, aided, and abetted by TNC’s (The Nature Conservancy) contracted vegetation models and analysis. Photo and caption: Katie Fite.

Some may have noticed (recently, or decades ago) that the U.S. Forest Service-U.S.D.A. (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management-U.S. Department of Interior (BLM) speak in a cryptic language of words with no source, no reference, no definition, and consequently no meaning.

This is a deliberate blinding process designed to deprive the American public of sight and understanding. Trickery is used by land managers as a weaponized psychological tool to create mass delusion, dominion and deterrence over vast landscapes and we, the common people.

In his seminal (1983) book entitled Sterile Forests, Ned Fritz warned of the renewed “onslaught…” inflicted by the “modern clearcutters, by burning, poisoning and other methods preventing the original forest composition from ever returning.”

Forest genocide is not new. Its cumulative detrimental effects now threaten our terrestrial and aquatic ecosystems. A warming planet and extended regional drought drive air and water temperatures higher, simultaneously as baseline and trend. Clearcutting and long-term deforestation are accelerants that must stop. Warming waters explode algal blooms that rob aquatic ecosystems of oxygen. Aquatic insect populations deprived of oxygen no longer persist, breaking the food chain, placing trout survival in serious jeopardy.

Legislative efforts to reform federal land management agencies and gain control over the commodification and sterilization of public forests have failed miserably. Indiscriminate clearcutting and bulldozing logging roads into untrammeled forests proceeds unabated. Massive agency-arson programs burn, masticate, and cultivate the fragmented forest creating man-made ‘temporary deserts.’ These programs to grow commercial tree crops and cows allegedly to meet and expand the nation’s demand wood fiber and red meat haven’t changed much since Puritans repaid City of London investors with beaver pelts and timber in the early 1600s.

Under the direction of seldom identified oligarchs, technocrats, fascist ideologues, and their infantile mannequins of power in Congress, in the Supreme Court and White House, almost all funding for non-commercial activities was eliminated. Federal forest management programs and projects have reduced 21st century public forests to a single purpose: ‘meeting demand’ for low value commodities at great expense. Expenditures almost always exceed net revenues.........

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