Viewpoint: Public lands and the hallucination of nature

Steve Kelly

Some may have noticed (recently, or decades ago) that the U.S. Forest Service-U.S.D.A. (USFS) and Bureau of Land Management-U.S. Department of Interior (BLM) speak in a cryptic language of words with no source, no reference, no definition, and consequently no meaning.

This is a deliberate blinding process designed to deprive the American public of sight and understanding. Trickery is used by land managers as a weaponized psychological tool to create mass delusion, dominion and deterrence over vast landscapes and we, the common people.

In his seminal (1983) book entitled Sterile Forests, Ned Fritz warned of the renewed

“onslaught…” inflicted by the “modern clearcutters, by burning, poisoning and other methods preventing the original forest composition from ever returning.”