Trouble in a Green Pickup Charlie McCarty
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What could be worse than facing a gang of criminals blocking the only way down the road?
In Trouble in a Green Pickup by Charlie McCarty, the author exposes the practices people working for the Forest Service resort to as a way to fulfill their supposed mandate of protecting the nation’s resources and wildlife. He paints the way officials of the agency behave like dictators, shoving rules and programs down people’s throats without effective consultation, while wasting taxpayers’ money on ill-advised fire prevention operations.
Picture this Has anyone thought that wild forest fires would be a cause for parties as well as betting card games while the fire is raging and threatening to consume lives and properties along its path?
In a book that is destined to ignite fires beyond the bushes of Tularosa Creek, Charlie explains why the sight of a green pickup assigned to Forest Service officials deserves more fear than the sight of a gang of criminals blocking one’s way down the road.
Trouble in a Green Pickup Charlie McCarty
Poor Charlie, what with being a lifelong victim and having successfully alienated literally everyone in his life. He does raise some valid arguments amid the pity party. Geez.Product details
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Trouble in a Green Pickup Charlie McCarty Reviews
First off the cover is reminiscent of the covers for WIZR (written by Kieth Wells) illustrated by Peter McMahon oh so long ago. (Friends once.) Raymond Igancio is to be congratulated on his cover work as it reflects the true nature of the book that Mr. McCarty has penned out.
I must say I suspect that I may have met the Author somewhere along the way, but I am not sure; for he accurately describes the same type of events I saw on the other side of the mountains over the last 20 years.
This book is a good read. I don't care where you are on the planet you will be transported, entertained, through the eyes of of someone who understands what really are the important element in everyday life.
This book is an easy read. Written in natural language McCarty sets the stage with a background that is exactly what many western factual account can only wish to describe.
Are you going to send your Kid out West to work the forest for a season or two? If so exactly what kind of corporate culture does the USFS have that your darling children will be exposed / subjected to? Believe it or not your kids would be safer spiritually (if one can say that) if they went to Cuba to help bring in the sugar crop! The mentality is the same but that trip to Cuba may actually be drug free. McCarty did not say this directly, I did. Oh and there is one more difference - your taxes pay for all of it.
In 250 pages the Author never cried for help, for he clearly gives us a sense that he knows the true nature of the populist forestry movement and its paralegals, and its for hire practitioners.
I recommend the book to any one who is at present studying to be a Socialist or is currently reading Howard Zinn.
And why is that? McCarty is on to you. (and them) And McCarty is not alone by no stretch of the Imagination.
It is my hope that Trouble In A Green Pickup by Charlie McCarty will be read by the USDA, Department of Justice, and the social engineers of the USFS, perhaps, and just perhaps what is broke either by design, flay or just plane negligence in management will be corrected, or better "new and improved" after all they have saved the trees - now lets fix the corporate culture and the life styles it imposes on USFS employees. (you folks will be real Marxists if you do)
I did some checking and Mr McCarty hasn't embellished or enhanced his stories - absolutely remarkable for anything in print today.
I am going to go find this courageous Author and shake his hand. GOOD BOY!
NOTE
Kieth Wells went to Goail (jail) for his book and only got out with the Queens intervention.
Charlie (and Iganacio) I think you are going to be O.K. (PS The Queen is still available should we need her again.Rules for Radicals)
Trouble in a Green Pickup is an autobiography of a man born and bred here in Catron County. Charlie McCarty's interesting book begins with a chapter on his forebears - their lifestyles, their values, their struggles as pioneering ranchers in this newly-settled land. It was these values of independence, initiative, and hard work that form the author's life, and inform the rest of the book.
The cover is funny, and so is the book. Not rolling on the floor kind of funny, but just a chuckle here and there. Of course, judging the book by its cover, it's a criticism of the U.S. Forest Service, and chapter 2, "Fired for Doing It Right," jumps right into it. After high school, McCarty took a job with the Forest Service. He chronicles those months in detail as he went from hopeful youth to disillusioned critic.
The author tells how - by his father's untimely death - he was thrust at a young age into running the ranch himself. The rest of the book describes his own efforts to work and improve the ranch, and all the obstacles he faced in doing so, particularly obstacles introduced by the Forest Service.
This book is more than a simple autobiography, however. Because of McCarty's familial roots and personal observation skills, he presents a view of the forest - as ranchland and as wilderness area - from a historical perspective. He helps us see, chapter by chapter, decade by decade, the changes that have come about. We see ranchers being forced out of business, one by one, by predator losses, increasing fees, decreasing range allotments, and loos of ability to bring in motorized equipment to build fence and watering facilities. We see native deer driven nearly to local extinction, replaced by introduced elk. We see grassland, with nature's fire cleanup suppressed, becoming a choked scrub forest, changing habitat for local species. We see damage to the local community and individual human lives as logging was shut down. And over all this, as the over-arching theme, we see a never-ending parade of Forest Service experts and capricious requirements and prohibitions.
I might feel uneasy reading a book criticizing a government agency. This book progresses from one incident to the next, and, engrossed as I was in the story itself, that mental discomfort didn't come. As I neared the end of the book I thought I would feel depressed because of the constant bad experiences the author relates. I didn't feel that either. That's probably because the book stands as a testament to one man's continuing efforts, one family's struggles. "Each generation has its own problems," asserts the author, and we accept that human condition.
McCarty begins his book by stating, "The government has knocked me down and dragged me through the mud lots of times. . . so I want to leave some tracks that can be followed." I appreciate what I learned as I followed them. This would be a worthwhile book in any home or community library.
- Catron Courier newspaper review, February 15, 2011
I purchased this book despite the cover, which looks like a comic strip. The book is very well written, better than I could ever do, and chronicles life with the modern U.S. Forest Service, from both the inside and the outside (a unique perspective). In most organizations, dishonesty and cruelty and incompetence are punished. In the modern USFS, apparently such characteristics are instead rewarded with promotions, in an effort to drive rural (conservative) voters out of existence and turn all forests into unused wilderness areas. See also "Liberty and Justice for All (What a Joke!)" by Hugh McKeen, with very similar stories of abuse, from a slightly different perspective. Something smells very bad in our national forests, and it isn't the cow pies.
New generation of Forest Service personal tend to make their own rules. This book tells it like it is !!!
Poor Charlie, what with being a lifelong victim and having successfully alienated literally everyone in his life. He does raise some valid arguments amid the pity party. Geez.
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