Canoe Fire Whitewashing Unsavory


	Canoe Fire Whitewashing Unsavory

GlennFrancoSimmons

8-3-2009 10:02 PM

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canoe fire, humboldt redwoods state park, redwood empire, the redwood empire, whitewashing, hugh scanlon, state parks, cal fire, southern humboldt

GlennFrancoSimmons says:

After my post critical of the Canoe Fire, prompted by my interviews of officials when I was an editor, the federal government REMOVED the PDF report on the fire but left up the HTML and then said its Web server was down, despite the HTML being available and all other PDFs on that server being available. If my criticisms are so wrong, why remove the document?

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