What will Trump’s plan to boost logging on national forests mean for our area? The answer is still unclear

Forest protection rollbacks will affect White Mountain National Forest

The Trump administration is reducing bureaucratic barriers for logging public forests, including New Hampshire's 800,000-acre White Mountain National Forest. In a memorandum on April 4, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins designated an emergency situation determination for 112 million acres of national forests marked as "high risk" for fire danger, invasive pests or other concerns. Most of White Mountain National Forest is included in the me…

What will Trump’s plan to boost logging on national forests mean for our area? The answer is still unclear

SPEARFISH — On March 1, the Trump Administration announced its plan to expand timber production, beginning with an executive order giving the Secretary of Agriculture, Bureau of Land Management, and chief of the United States Forest Service 30 days to…