US EditionTrump administration rolls back forest protections in bid to ramp up logging
- The Trump administration acted to roll back environmental protections for future logging projects.
- Officials cited wildfire dangers when rolling back environmental rules under an emergency designation.
- This rollback, affecting over half of U.S. national forests, exempts the forests from an objection process.
- Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins' directive called on staff to streamline environmental reviews.
- The Biden administration also sought to ramp up logging to combat fires, but timber sales dipped.
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Logging Doesn’t Prevent Wildfires, But Trump is Trying It Anyway
This story was originally published by Grist.In an emergency directive issued late last week, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced her department’s plan to expand logging and timber production by 25 percent and, in the process, dismantle the half-century-old environmental review system that has blocked the federal government from finalizing major decisions concerning national forest lands without public insight. Unde…
America Returns to Active Forest Management
Logging and controlled burns have been under attack since the Wilsonian “Progressive” Era. Progressive federal and state government policies restricting common-sense logging and fuel breaks led to overgrown forests that quickly burn out of control. The result is ever-increasing threats to property, human and animal lives, and environmental damage, including air pollution, water pollution, and loss of habitat and species.
Why timber cutting in Arizona, other states by Forest Service to ramp up
About 59% of all national forest lands in the U.S., including some in southern and central Arizona, would be open to logging under far fewer environmental restrictions than exist today, under a new directive from the Trump administration.
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