The New York Times touts the Forest Service's excuse for the unprecedented wildfires.

They're all because we have "held Nature back" for so long. It's all because of the the bad old days when we harvested timber and protected it from burning. You know--back before the USFS promoted so many women and environazis into its management, due to a lawsuit demanding quotas and a consent decree. Now we know better than to do things like cut firebreaks and build service roads to ease movement of men and vehicles. Now we're wise enough to prescribe burns, and cover our butts with stories about how good fire is for the forest.

This should be a national scandal sufficient to get the USFS and BLM management all canned, but because they're good environmentalists who don't believe in forestry and forest products, the media will shield them and blame it all on Smokey Bear and Woodsy Owl.

Meanwhile the West burns and its inhabitants will be rounded up and put on reservations, while the elite, beautiful people get the wilderness for their exclusive playgrounds, that is, unless it all burns before then.