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TexasTowelie

(116,301 posts)
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 05:09 AM Jan 2019

Trump's executive order will cut more forest trees; CU Boulder professor says "we can't log our way

Trump’s executive order will cut more forest trees; CU Boulder professor says “we can’t log our way out of the fire problem”


With a partial government shutdown looming, President Donald Trump quietly issued an executive order that expands logging on public land on the grounds that it will curb deadly wildfires.

The declaration, issued the Friday before Christmas, reflects Trump’s interest in forest management since a spate of wildfires ravaged California last year. While many scientists and Western governors have urged federal officials to adopt a suite of policies to tackle the problem, including cuts in greenhouse gases linked to climate change, the president has focused on expanding timber sales.

The executive order instructs the secretaries of agriculture and interior to consider harvesting a total of 4.4 billion board feet of timber from forest land managed by their agencies on millions of acres, and put it up for sale. The order would translate into a 31 percent increase in forest service logging since 2017.

The president wanted to sign an executive order on the issue during his trip to California in mid-November, said one individual familiar with the matter, but it wasn’t ready for his signature.

Read more: https://www.denverpost.com/2019/01/14/trump-executive-order-logging-wildfires/
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Trump's executive order will cut more forest trees; CU Boulder professor says "we can't log our way (Original Post) TexasTowelie Jan 2019 OP
Evil MFer! I despise his Deplorables, all 63+ million. SammyWinstonJack Jan 2019 #1
We have to cut down the forest to save it Martin Eden Jan 2019 #2
Damn him and his Dictator EOs. Cha Jan 2019 #3
Cheeto tells them to *rake* all the forests like they do in Finland FakeNoose Jan 2019 #4

Martin Eden

(13,379 posts)
2. We have to cut down the forest to save it
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 07:06 AM
Jan 2019

Seems Cadet Bone Spurs learned something from the Vietnam experience after all.

FakeNoose

(35,328 posts)
4. Cheeto tells them to *rake* all the forests like they do in Finland
Tue Jan 15, 2019, 07:28 AM
Jan 2019


It must be working because there are no forest fires in Finland? Or something ... like that?

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