Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests; Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Clinton-era rule barring road construction and logging outdated & "absurd"

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• Tylerdurdon@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  I mean, that’s why they called them conservatives, right? It was their willingness to obliterate every last bit of nature in the name of the almighty dollar.

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• Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

  Friendly reminder that logging makes fires worse

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  • silence7@slrpnk.net ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

    Yeah, logging for timber does, which is what we’re going to get from this administration. Selective thinning of smaller trees (eg: mostly not commercially viable) can be part of how you restore regular low-intensity fire to the forests in the western US, which reduces the risk of high-intensity fire.

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    • Montagge@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨days⁩ ago

      True, but not many logging companies do selective logging unfortunately. Gotta think about those Weyerhauser shareholders.

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