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#Trump Moves to Increase #Logging in #NationalForests
Trump wants to circumvent #environmental #regulations to expand #timber production, something sought by homebuilders & the construction industry.
Trump directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass #EndangeredSpecies protections & other environmental regulations to ramp up timber production across 280M acres of national forests & #PublicLands.
#law #ClimateCrisis #conservation #ecosystems #habitats #Wildlife
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/02/climate/trump-logging-national-forests.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=F7B40757-C2D0-41C0-91D5-D8068ECF4EDB
The move appears aimed at increasing domestic supply as #Trump threatens #tariffs on #timber imports from #Canada, #Germany, #Brazil & elsewhere. #Environmental groups say increased #logging would decimate American #forests, #pollute #air & #water & devastate #wildlife #habitats.
And because trees absorb & store carbon dioxide, a #GreenhouseGas, cutting them down releases it back into the atmosphere, adding to #GlobalWarming.
“#Trump’s order will unleash the chain saws & bulldozers on our federal #forests,” said Randi Spivak, the #PublicLands policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an #environmental group. “#Clearcutting these beautiful places will increase #fire risk, drive species to #extinction, #pollute our #rivers & #streams, & destroy world-class recreation sites,” she said.
…#Trump called for the convening of a committee of high-level officials nicknamed the God Squad because it can override the landmark #EndangeredSpecies Act so that development or other projects can proceed even if they might result in an #extinction.
The cmte has rarely been convened since it was created, in 1978, through an amendment to the endangered species #law to allow for action during emergencies like #hurricanes & #wildfires.
@Nonilex No problem #FeloniousTrump will just move them somewhere else with his sharpie. (sarcasm)
@Nonilex As a mobster would say "You've got some nice trees there. Shame if anything were to happen to them."
@Nonilex Destruction. If not annihilation. Anyone looking for that 1789 playbook already?