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Nevada chops down trees to save the forest
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According to the new and improved Recovery.gov website (paid for with $18 million of your taxes), Nevada's Division of Forestry, part of the Department of Conservation and Natural Resources, has been awarded $1.3 million for a "forest protection and green energy" project.
The government website claims that 26 jobs were created to destroy nearly 300 acres of Juniper and Pinyon trees since March. The project aims to reduce forest fires and provide 3,767 cubic yards of biomass.
Northern Nevada Correctional Facility will be using 2,700 cubic yards of the biomass for "green energy," while the remaining 1,067 cubic yards of flamable biomass is being chipped and used as mulch at the project site.
So to recap: Nevada's Department of Conservation and Natural Resources is chopping down hundreds of acres of trees because they're flamable. 26 government project workers will create biomass for a jail in northern Nevada and use the rest of the destroyed trees as mulch to cover the ground where they chopped down the trees in the first place. No word on what these 26 project workers will do when their done chopping down the forest, or if their jobs will be uncounted from the 3-4 million jobs created or saved thanks to the$787 Billion Stimulus package.
More on your stimulus tax dollars at work here. Recovery
AP Photo Jeff Barnard
