SEELEY LAKE - I recently received a response from Congressman Gianforte that indicated he was doing his best to reduce federal expenditures but that it looked like with the hurricane and flood expenses of Florida and Texas, along with the fire expenses in Montana, he was going to have to vote for an increase in the debt ceiling. He said our national debt is nearly $20 trillion and growing. Interest payments are reaching nearly $200 billion.
I know the politically correct thing is to praise the firefighters and their “putting their life on the line for us” but I think the fires are out and I wonder why there is still the large encampment here in Seeley? The explanation that they are restoring the land they tore up to make firelines just goes so far. There will be erosion regardless and the woods have an amazing ability to restore themselves without further per deim and expense.
I saw a number of them staying in one of the best motels in Missoula, where the cheapest room is $250 a night. I’m sure the government gets a reduced rate but still --where’s the evidence that they are trying to limit the great expense of these fires?
One of your readers made a comment that the airplanes appeared to be dumping their water where it wasn’t needed just so they could make more runs and make more money. That doesn’t surprise me.
At least two people lost their life on this exercise.
It’s time to stop the dog and pony show and get back to doing whatever they do. Several of your readers, who work in the woods and know the drill, think the loss of 160,000 acres was the result of poor management.
I hope we can get the swamp drained soon, before we go broke.
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