NAN A. S. HAYWORTH: “I listened with great astonishment as once again rhetoric replaces reality. We should strive for a genuine balance of…”

“I listened with great astonishment as once again rhetoric replaces reality. We should strive for a genuine balance of the environment and legitimate economic enterprises. It is well documented that a fire corridor exists from Idaho to Mexico, and yes, even beyond. But there will be new fires prompted by these new prohibitions, by not allowing the salvage of dead and decaying timber. It is as if the new prohibitionists were lighting entire small communities ablaze. It is an outrage. No on this. Yes to economic vitality, yes to a true economic balance. We can coexist, and we need to eliminate the fire hazard.”