Federal plan for forests is for the birds

Re “Forestland on Sale List Not All Bare,” Feb. 28

When we first learned of the U.S. Forest Service’s plans to sell off 300,000 acres of national forest land, we complained that this was no way to manage a national forest system.

Our forests are under enough threats, from global warming to bark beetles, from money-losing logging to off-road-vehicle-generated noise and erosion, and most worrisome, from an administration ready to sell off anything not bolted down to cover up its (read “our”) fiscal mess.

Of course, it does make sense to manage forest holdings through land swaps, but implementing a directive from Washington to sell off 300,000 acres is simply selling the seed corn.

ROBERT SIEBERT

Orange

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So, 85,000 acres of California’s national forestland is to be sold off to finance schools and roads. Wouldn’t a better plan be to nationalize Halliburton and sell it to Dubai to finance schools and roads?

This plan is beyond pathetic.

MITZI SHPAK

Altadena