Tangential: I rec'd the Hotshot documentary to several folks. Most amazing wildfire footage I've ever seen. Also fascinating detail on the extent to which native populations used prescribed burning before modern forestry "management" of "clear-cut and replant monoculture in the slash" took over.

Again, not Canadian, so I’m likely wrong about some things here, but my worry about this from your post turned to confusion after reading the article, so I wanted to ask

Meaning that there might be more land open to forest management through the normal process of forest management planning, but no mandate of additional management of any sort (especially not a contentious and context specific sort like clearcutting)?

I also don’t know as much ab québécois forest regulations—would love to know what I’m missing. Is there something that would suggest that this road would mandate clearcutting? My rudimentary understanding is that at worst it may open some land accessible by the road to possible forestry operations

I’m struggling to find where a law was made here and where any mention of clear cutting was made by the government is this article?
All for protecting forest land, and even more for community voices in management, but a permit for a short road to a persons land through a forest doesn’t seem too bad

A Bureau of Land Management official involved in hiring said, “The level of stupidity and negligence here is enraging.”

“What if there’s nobody to show up? How many people died with garden hoses in their hands?” the person said. www.nbcnews.com/news/us-news...

We already see the shutdown's cost. Kids with drug-resistant TB, turned away from clinics, are not just dying - they're spreading the disease. People around the world w HIV, denied their medicine, will soon start transmitting virus. The damage is global.