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Date: March 04, 2025 at 07:14:49
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber |
URL: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/mar/03/trump-national-forest-executive-order?CMP=oth_b-aplnews_d-1 |
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See? Canadian tariffs aren't going to effect
construction. Our clear cut forests will save the
disastrous policies for another day or two.
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Donald Trump has ordered that swathes of America’s
forests be felled for timber, evading rules to protect
endangered species while doing so and raising the
prospect of chainsaws razing some of the most
ecologically important trees in the US.
The president, in an executive order, has demanded an
expansion in tree cutting across 280m acres (113m
hectares) of national forests and other public lands,
claiming that “heavy-handed federal policies” have made
America reliant on foreign imports of timber.
“It is vital that we reverse these policies and
increase domestic timber production to protect our
national and economic security,” the order adds.
Trump has instructed the US Forest Service and Bureau
of Land Management to increase logging targets and for
officials to circumvent the US’s Endangered Species Act
by using unspecified emergency powers to ignore
protections placed upon vulnerable creatures’ habitats.
This move is similar to recent instructions by Trump to
use a rarely-used committee to push through fossil fuel
projects even if they imperil at-risk species. Experts
have said this overriding of the Endangered Species Act
is probably illegal.
The order also stipulates logging projects can be sped
up if they are for purported wildfire risk reduction,
via “thinning” of vegetation that could ignite. Some
scientists have said that aggressively felling forests,
particularly established, fire-resistant trees,
actually increases the risk of fast-moving fires.
“This Trump executive order is the most blatant attempt
in American history by a president to hand over federal
public lands to the logging industry,” said Chad
Hanson, wildfire scientist at the John Muir Project.
“What’s worse, the executive order is built on a lie,
as Trump falsely claims that more logging will curb
wildfires and protect communities, while the
overwhelming weight of evidence shows exactly the
opposite.”
Hanson said logging alters the microclimate of forests,
creating hotter and drier conditions that helps
wildfires, such as the events that recently ravaged Los
Angeles, to spread faster.
“Trump’s exact approach, logging in remote forests and
telling communities that it will stop fires, is
responsible for numerous towns being destroyed by fires
in recent years, and hundreds of lives lost,” he said.
Environmental groups decried Trump’s latest attempt to
circumvent endangered species laws that shield about
400 species in national forests, including grizzly
bears, spotted owls and wild salmon, and warned an
increase in logging could pollute the water supply
relied upon by millions of Americans.
“Trump’s order will unleash the chainsaws and
bulldozers on our federal forests. Clearcutting these
beautiful places will increase fire risk, drive species
to extinction, pollute our rivers and streams, and
destroy world-class recreation sites,” said Randi
Spivak public lands policy director for the Center for
Biological Diversity.
“This is a particularly horrific move by Trump to loot
our public lands by handing the keys to big business.”
The future of some of America’s most prized forests now
appears uncertain. Under Joe Biden, the US committed to
protecting the last fragments of old-growth forest,
which contain some of the grandest and oldest trees on
Earth. As trees soak up planet-heating carbon dioxide,
protecting the oldest, most carbon-rich trees is seen
as a way to help address the climate crisis. The former
president also vowed to end deforestation by 2030.
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Date: March 04, 2025 at 09:37:44
From: The Hierophant, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber |
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As he promised - when he got into office - drill baby
drill....destroy any and all natural resources for
immediate monetary profit. Yes, the maggers will LOVE
what he does to our country - no national parks or parks
devoid of trees; polluted air, water, and grounds; a
plethora of endangered species added to the already long
list- such an awesome legacy for future generations - oh
wait, the current administration doesn't give one rat's
behind about future generations.
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Date: March 04, 2025 at 11:07:49
From: mitra, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber |
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As W.R. Grace said when asked about his pollution that
poisoned an entire town,
"There's no point in working with the environment,
Jesus is coming back and there will be a new heaven and
a new earth."
He knew the cancer rates were rising for 30 years when
the asbestos was blowing into the town. You know he
would have been a good Maga-tte.
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Date: March 04, 2025 at 11:15:06
From: shadow, [DNS_Address]
Subject: Re: Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber |
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That perverse little turd of rationale is being and will
continue to be leaned into very hard by these rapists... It
was wielded freely amongst religious circles I knew of
growing up, in response to everything environmentally
aware...and though I haven't seen one of them brandish it
yet upfront at a podium, in the current sideshow, I have no
doubt the moment fast approaches...yes, I can smell it
coming...
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