The Wounded West...and Congress finally acts, pitifully

President Obama has signed a bill authorizing the Forest Service to contract for seven new large air tankers.

Two pilots die, homes burned, the West is on fire...and then and only then does Congress act.

This is only a band aid on a decades old, festering wound in the West.  A wound inflicted on us by the enviros and the courts and the Congress has stood by and done nothing.  A wound on the earth that will not heal until Congress revises the statutes to allow scientific management to occur on these lands.

A Wounded West...what a shame.