Talk of fire prevention fee for water users
By Gary Thomson, Auburn Journal
Could Placer County Water Agency users soon be paying an extra charge on their bills for clearing brush and protecting the upstream watershed against fire and erosion?
It’s a question that the Tahoe National Forest’s top ranger gave an opportunity for leaders of government and private industry to ponder during a workshop on the watershed in Auburn.
Forest Supervisor Tom Quinn told a gathering of about 120 people in Auburn on Thursday that the U.S. Forest Service view of water as a “non-market resource” has shifted.
There’s a new move toward considering non-traditional values that can be attached to watershed – from its role as a wildlife habitat to its impact on climate change to providing water for a plethora of downstream users, Quinn said.
It’s starting to get tiresome, being charged by government agencies for work that they are paid by taxes to do anyway. It’s almost as if they simply get paid to show up, and if we want them to actually DO something while they’re there, we need to pay them extra!
Another tax among the other’s.Fleece the taxpayer, Banks don’t have any money left to steal.
Here’s America bailing out other countries after earth quakes, fires, hurricanes, but can’t allocate enough to keep these Forest Agencies Bums from taking bread off our tables.
Outrageous !!!
The only skill that government bureaucrats excel at is their ability to concoct yet more clever ways to pick the pockets of the taxpayers and ratepayers they presumably work for, while maintaining their own comfortable, feathered nests, perks, pensions, and benefits.
Kinda like the Airlines,IT’S GETTING TO THE POINT YOU’LL HAVE TO PAY TO USE THE RESTROOMS,WAIT SEE, Forest service right behind them.