<p>This second edition of "The Tinder Box," published in September 2014 by Seneca Books, provides readers with greater detail concerning events that occurred within the U.S. Forest Service from 1982 through 2008, and has a far more extensive Index. Since 1990 over 113,000,000 acres of America's timber lands have been consumed by wildfire, one of many disasters the U.S. Forest Service must be held accountable for. Over that same period the timber industry, companies engaged in making wood products, owners of properties adjacent forest lands, and the public at large have become incensed by the agency's ineptitude.To learn more read Christopher Burchfield's "The Tinder Box: How Politically Correct Ideology Destroyed the U.S. Forest Service." The book goes back to the very beginning--33 years ago--when the agency set about destroying itself from within. Readers will finally grasp those terrible events inside the agency, all of which took place entirely outside of public purview. Indeed, this is the first inside look at how--step-by-step, political correctness destroyed an American institution.</p>

The Tinder Box: How Politically Correct Ideology Destroyed the U.S. Forest Service

Politics & Social Sciences

Burchfield, Christopher

Social Sciences

Seneca Books

"The Tinder Box: How Politically Correct Ideology Destroyed the U.S. Forest Service describes in detail how the agency set about destroying itself from within. It was an effort organized and directed by high level employees who ranged far beyond the parameters of the Bernardi Consent Decree as approved by a federal judge.         The narrative is based on an enormous stash of documents located at a federal records center and interviews with former employees. To carry out a doctrine that broke the morale and backbone of its workforce, the agency launched a thirty year campaign of mendacity, embracing scores of programs designed to hire the unqualified over the qualified. The end result is an agency now incapable of carrying out its mission of managing 193 million acres of forest lands. In truth, since 1990 America has lost 113 million acres to wildfire.        This extensively researched book will leave readers in a state of shock over the decline of of one of America's most venerable institutions.

The Tinder Box: How Politicallly Correct Ideology Destroyed the U.s Forest Service

Createspace Independent Pub

In Gold Rush–era California, gunfighters weren’t outlaws or desperadoes ― they were were prominent journalists, legislators, governors, and judges. Choose Your Weapon brings to life a now-forgotten time, when California was a raw new state with politics as violent as any banana republic. This was the Golden Age of dueling, when prominent citizens would settle their political and personal disputes with gunfire, according to the venerable law of the code duello. Choose Your Weapon documents every notable duel to have occurred in California, from the arrival of U.S. dueling culture with the first American settlers to the end of dueling’s popularity on the eve of the Civil War.In the heyday of dueling culture, men from all walks of life, from politicians to manual laborers, fought formal duels. Duels could be triggered by political battles to shape state government―or they could be fought over a woman or a personal slight. Braggarts often proved to be cowards on the field of honor, and many a quiet and peaceable man could shoot with deadly accuracy when reputation was at stake. For the California gentlemen of the 1850s, honor or dishonor―and life or death―could be decided with a single shot.

Choose Your Weapon: The Duel in California, 1847–1861

History

Americas

Craven Street Books

Choose Your Weapon: The Duel in California, 1847-1861 describes in graphic detail the major figures, causes and means by which the 75 "affairs of honor" were fought in the Golden State during this time frame. The number of shootouts between these "gentleman" was greater than that of any other state during those pre-civil war years.     Because so many were fought over politics, the book reveals much about the major politicians and newspaper editors of that era. In addition, there is a great deal of irony. For example, in 1850 Assemblyman George Penn Johnston crafted a bill that provided severe penalties for anyone convicted of dueling. Still, it remained impossible to empanel a jury that would convict a duelist. Eight years later this same legislator sent a challenge to a member of the State Senate, and in the shootout that followed, killed him. Though found not guilty, he was the first duelist to be tried under the very statute he had authored.    New evidence also reveals there was far more paradox than previously imagined regarding the infamous duel between U.S. Senator David C. Broderick and State Supreme Court Justice David Terry.     Perhaps the most grueling duel ever to take place on America's frontier was the 1853 faceoff between U.S. Senator William Gwin and Congressman Joseph W. McCorckle. Fought in the hills above bucolic San Mateo with 54 caliber Mississippi Yagers at forty paces, by dint of a miracle neither was killed.     In summary "Choose Your Weapon" provides readers with an invaluable historical primer on California's Golden Era, as well as the tumultuous temperament of its pioneer politicians and newspaper editors.

Choose Your Weapon: The Duel in California, 1847 to 1861

I & L Pub

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The Tinder Box: How Politically Correct Ideology Destroyed the U.S. Forest Service

The Tinder Box: How Politicallly Correct Ideology Destroyed the U.s Forest Service

Choose Your Weapon: The Duel in California, 1847–1861

Choose Your Weapon: The Duel in California, 1847 to 1861