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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.

  • happybadger [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    18 days ago

    My partner does fire mitigation logging in an ecologically responsible way. Fire’s great for the landscape, super intense fire really damages the soil, you have to manage forests that were ecologically disrupted in the 19th/20th centuries. That work shouldn’t be impacted by tree spiking that isn’t targeted against specific commercial loggers who don’t pay their lumberjacks enough to care about opsec.

    or higher up where it would affect the sawmill later processing the wood.

    three-heads-thinking Sawmills are a highly centralised industry which runs on very thin profit margins.