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Message: <blockquote data-quote="gst" data-source="post: 105985" data-attributes="member: 373">plainsamn you never did answer when the last time you attended a legislative hearing on an issue that mattered to you. We still have National forests here in  ND. Have you ever been by Denbigh? Teddy Roosevelt would have gotten along quite well with Bernie Sanders discussing their Socialist views. <a href="http://timashby.com/teddy-roosevelts-socialist-party-platform/" target="_blank">http://timashby.com/teddy-roosevelts-socialist-party-platform/</a>How much bigger govt do you want plainsman? Most true conservatives I know want to shrink all aspects of govt.- - - Updated - - -Interesting read here palinsman, http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/Blog/2011/February/01-The-US-Forest-Service-is-Established.aspxI wonder what Roosevelt would think of mining, logging and grazing being forced off the lands by the USFS he created? People banter about Teddys "legacy" without including much of the truth behind it. "Today in 1905, the United States Forest Service officially came into existence under the Department of Agriculture. <a href="http://www.theodorerooseveltcenter.org/en/Learn-About-TR/TR-Encyclopedia/Conservation/Gifford-Pinchot.aspx" target="_blank">Gifford Pinchot</a>, head of the forestry division of the DoA, had been advocating for more control over the federal forests and grasslands and was supported heartily by Theodore Roosevelt. With the establishment of the Forest Service, Pinchot finally had the control needed to start implementing many of the forestry policies for which he advocated including scientific management of forests, controlled logging in national forests and controlled grazing rights for farmers and ranchers. Pinchot and Roosevelt often were at odds with staunch conservationists such as John Muir who wanted to ban logging and commercial use of national lands entirely.Pinchot and the Forest Service instead developed relationships with timber companies, ranchers and farmers to plan the sustainability of the forest reserves while still providing a growing nation with the raw materials it needed to expand. The <a href="http://www.fs.fed.us/aboutus/meetfs.shtml" target="_blank">Forest Service of today</a> still maintains those principles as it works “to manage national forests for additional multiple uses and benefits and for the sustained yield of renewable resources such as water, forage, wildlife, wood, and recreation.” Today’s national forests include more than 190 million acres of land, an area roughly the size of Texas, clearly a legacy of which both Roosevelt and Pinchot would be proud"</blockquote>

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