It looks like Lauren Boebert is duplicating her BFF Madison Cawthorn’s Icarus-esque political trajectory, because she is leaving no stone unturned in making enemies unnecessarily. Recently, the Forest Service Chief in Colorado, Randy Moore, announced that he was pausing all prescribed burns on National Forest lands. This was apparently part of a risk/benefit balancing act, where the risk of a controlled burn escaping — as happened recently in New Mexico — was weighed against “current extreme wildfire risk conditions in the field.”
That seems fair, right? But not to Lauren Boebert, who is feeling her oats these days and attacking anybody and anything that she can.
Here’s what she said in a May 20 Facebook post, shortly after this news was released. Durango Herald:
“This bureaucratic decision will only result in more catastrophic wildfires as more fuel and dead timber will remain on the ground. Chief Moore will be hearing from me about this Friday evening policy change!”
In an email to The Durango Herald, Boebert explained her criticism.
“98% of all prescribed burns never have any issues. A 90-day blanket moratorium on prescribed burns in every national forest throughout the country defies science and common sense,” she said in a statement. “… Scientists and forestry experts have long recognized that prescribed burns play an important role in reducing the risk and severity of catastrophic wildfires. Prescribed burns are an important tool in the toolbox, and we need to actively manage our forests in order to protect our communities from devastating wildfires.”
Maybe Boebert will just get a box of kitchen matches and a can of sterno and go start her own fire, if the Forest Service won’t listen to her.
It’s pretty much of a no brainer to everybody else, but of course that puts it past Boebert’s capacity.
Conditions in Southwest Colorado have been challenging this spring with high winds and dry fuels worsening wildfire risk and making prescribed burns more difficult.
The Bureau of Land Management postponed its nearly 500-acre prescribed burn on Animas City Mountain because of dry and windy conditions.
The people who do the prescribed burns do so conscientiously. They’re not going to fly in the face of reality and set a controlled fire which might soon get out of control. Boebert calls this “bureaucracy.”
What is truly comical is that Boebert doesn’t believe in climate change and apparently didn’t even notice that this past year there wasn’t a snowfall in her district until December. And could that, possibly, do you think, have any affect on hyper-dry conditions in the area?
Please, Colorado. Do yourself a favor. Vote her out. You’ve got enough problems in that state without this idiot.
There are rules about when and how you can do a controlled burn.
But I guess that’s too complex for her to understand.
What’s amazing is that she’s even choosing to make a big deal out of this. It only makes her look bad.
Sorry Ursula…she looked grotesque the second wind parted her lips to speak.
Oh, and the fact that there have already been TWO wildfires just outside the city limits of Durango (which if they had not been controlled could easily have burned down into town) – don’t think she is winning any votes with her nonsense.
My hometown like others in southern Illinois was in/surrounded by what if you look on a map is the Shawnee National Forest. I should also note where I grew up was eight miles from the Mississippi River about forty miles from where it meets the Ohio River at Cairo, IL. There is some serious humidity in that region – growing up the haze in the air so many days wasn’t pollution like you’d see in a city, but rather humidity!
I said all that because I was in Scouts, and one day we were “volunteered” (not that any of us minded) to the Forest Service to help do a controlled burn. Most of the scouts (it wasn’t just our troop) were lookouts but some took part in the actual setting of fire lines under the supervision of a Ranger. It was all very planned out ahead of time yet despite this taking place where it did the burn got out of control. Fortunately it was quickly contained by a couple of the fire trucks (more were on hand) on standby but it cut things short. THAT was in an area where there was a helluva lot less easily combustable fuel for a fire than out in Colorado!
Finally, given the Forest Service’s history of being if not in the pockets of then at least friendly to timber interests and even some developers I don’t think that’s a group of federal employees and their families & friends and ancillary businesses that benefit from long-standing Forest Service policy and practices pissing them off isn’t one of Bobblehead’s better ideas. Then again, she’s plenty stupid enough to not know what she doesn’t know – an increasingly common characteristic in GOP Congress Critters!
Oh Bobo clown, you managed to reach yet another rock bottom of stupidity.
Colorado just needs to sweep the forests so there will be nothing to burn.
I have a solution to the problem of wildfires versus controlled burns. Both of them get rid of a lot of combustible material that lies on the ground. Let’s just send her out there to sweep the forests. It would get rid of that dangerous material and keep her so busy that we would never have to see or hear from her again. I hope that the voters in her district send her packing. We don’t need idiots in Congress.
I doubt she knows how to.light a match. Flick A Bic,maybe.
I think she and,MTG are in competition with Gohmert,,Gosar_ Cruz, Abbott,,Paxton, Jordan, etc for Stupidest a politician of 2022.