Today's WSJ:

Back in 1994, the National Commission on Wildfire Disasters warned that "millions of acres of forest in the western United States pose an extreme fire hazard from the extensive build-up of dry, highly flammable forest fuels." The commission's chairman told Congress that year: "The message we are trying to bring to you today is that there are millions of acres of federal forest in the inland west that need immediate intervention, to prevent an environmental and economic disaster."

What we haven't had from either Clinton and now Bush is leadership. This is from today's Wall Street Journal.

.....the dominant Democratic model of environmentalism is stasis; it won't allow any policy that would "favor logging interests.

All of you can rest easy in the assurance that logging companies didn't make one dime from the SoCal, Colorado, or Arizona fires. Not one dime from the billions in property damage, and not a penny from the tears of widows and orphans. Love them enviros.