Up in Smoke - The

Up in Smoke - The role of the big, urban, Green interest in the current forest fires in the west needs to be examined. The forests - like much of the government-owned west (the fed owns something like half of all land west of the Mississipi) is managed by diktat from politicized east-coast interests that are only marginally aware of how to deal with real-life, sometimes life-threatening, vicissitudes of nature.