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Secretarial Memo would make logging dominant on over a hundred million acres, taking next step towards dismantling Forest Service

Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a Secretarial Memo to expedite logging on over a hundred million acres of Forest Service lands.

The “emergency” memo follows President Trump’s reckless Executive Order “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production” and misguided attempts in Congress to solve the wildfire crisis with the reckless logging bill “Fix Our Forests Act”.

100 million acres is about the size of Rhode Island.

  • Sphere [he/him, they/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    18 days ago

    It’s easy to make announcements like this, but a lot harder to actually make it happen. They did massive cuts to the workforce at the Forest Service–you know, the people who would actually take the actions necessary to move this forward. So they’re likely to be somewhat stymied by their own prior actions.

    Plus, it’s easy to say “we’re gonna jumpstart American logging again,” but in reality the logging industry is just on the decline in general. Not much use cutting down trees if there’s nowhere to send them, and sawmills are closing down in the Northwest, and have been for a while now. I guess a big one in Oregon just shut down recently.

    https://newrepublic.com/post/192972/trump-timber-logging-federal-lands-forest-service