If There Aren’t Any Trees Left, How Can They Burn?

(Old-school fireproofing, Converse Basin, Giant Sequoia National Monument.) "Check out this plot hatched deep in the bowels of the Interior Department," writes Joan McCarter, in her Diary of a Mad Voter.

“The financial incentive of the forest service in implementing the forest plan," wrote Judge John T Noonan Jr of the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals, "is as operative, as tangible, and as troublesome as it would be if ... the agency was the paid accomplice of the loggers...”