Monday, July 9, 2007

Overzealous Environmental Regulations Anger Bears



Tahoe fire forces state to face reality
By Dan Walters


"Fundamentally, the conditions that generated so much destruction were political. The Tahoe basin is governed by an array of federal, state and local agencies that is as dense as the fuel-laden forest, all of which control pieces of the thinning issue. It includes a super-agency called the Tahoe Regional Planning Agency that exercises minute control over building and development..."

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