What do these recent actions on public lands have in common?
The Orwellian “Fix Our Forests” Act. Trump’s executive order to expand American timber production. The rescinding of the Roadless Rule. “Emergency” designation across 112 million acres—59% of National Forests.
All of them—unprecedented in scale and scope—push industrial logging under the pretense of “protecting” communities and forests from wildfire. (And, yes, despite bad faith denials, so-called “fuel reduction” meets the dictionary definition of logging, i.e. “to cut trees into logs”; the contractors hired to do the jobs are “logging contractors”; even project maps clearly label this as “logging.”)
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Industries and the people who own & run them will say anything to convince people to let them kill whatever they want for money and profit. Ranchers claim that cattle grazing is or can be good for the land. It’s all BS. And of course spoiled modern humans are unwilling to give up their opulent destructive lifestyles, in this case things made of dead trees. Between the money & power and people wanting their wood products, we have a lot of work to do in order to reverse the kind of evil laws written about here.
Jeff Hoffman Berkeley, CA
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You’re spot on, Jeff. If only they could tell the truth and admit it’s for profit, at least we could respect their honesty.
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