The Trump administration has removed environmental protections covering more than half of the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the president’s aim to significantly bolster the U.S. logging industry.
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#trump has no idea about leadership and stewardship. He regards everyone and everything as a businessmodel. A medieval approach towards civilisation. A disgrace for mankind. Americans, for Gods sake, how can you tolerate this narcist as your prez?
Not really a matter of tolerate as much as a third of the population don’t pay attn to politics until it affects them directly. I am hoping the tariffs will do it, however if Trump comes away with a few countries (Vietnam, India) having bargained, Trump will claim a win & some will believe him.
This is a little misleading. Half of the National Forest is already available for logging. There are protected spaces that are off limits. This administration wants to increase logging by 25%, which is needed to fight fires. We don't have enough mills and they will need to build roads.
The lack of science literacy and respect for the environment overall is astounding. This is such a destructive presidency and we’re only three months into it.
This should stop the wildfires, right?
Because we all know those loggers will rake up all the tree leaves, sawdust, dead plants they left behind, right?
#Trump & his cronies would #ClearCut our National Forest's then sell off the land for #OpenPit mining to finish off the rest of them! All for their own #GREED! They're all Greedy bastards that we MUST GET RID OF! One way or another! They will kill us either by starvation or the toxin's left behind!
I'm a daily hiker at elevation. Backyard is a national forest. I can't put in to words how tragic this is. Logging demands roads. Logging increases the risk of wildfire and destroys animal habitat. It eliminates wilderness where people SHOULD have access.
I've never wished another man dead but...
Order your "Trump Stump" today! DOGE authenticated, it can easily replace your Christmas tree! Your Trumpmas Stump says you're a part of the New Golden Age! And when you can't afford electricity or oil to heat your homes, just burn it in your wood stove! Your factory worker kids will love it!
What would you like Congress to Don? Seriously? Do you know how the game is played?
Do this instead. Blame the 40% of Americans who just couldn't be bothered with the five fucking minutes it takes to vote.
Need an enemy to blame? There you go.
The 36% that didn't vote are sh*tty citizens. Can't vote against a "fascist to the core?" Congress should do plenty. There are no emergencies, in trade or immigration, that allow a president to seize power as Trump has done. Do their jobs. An agency, created by Congress, can't be nullified, either.
He thinks this is what loggers want, no they understand what that will do to the environment yes there will be some corrupt company out there but most loggers understand sustainability
IN SCIENCE....LEARNED THIS IN HIGH SCHOOL.....TREES GIVE OFF OXYGEN. CERTAIN PLANT LIFE & OXYGEN IS NEEDED NOT ONLY FOR ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT BUT SUSTAINING LIFE- IN ADDITION TO MAN KIND
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Oh ffs why are you guys so bad at your job (no need to answer, it’s because Bezos needs a few more tight shirts 👚 and the environment won’t be allowed stand in his way)
I am beyond sad reading this. Mother Earth is being pillaged. She won’t die, but our children will when there’s nothing left for them! 😩😭
No one seems to care about future generations!!!
The seven generations philosophy is an important consideration in all of my decisions, and one that I actively promote through example and teaching.
I still wish others could see beyond their greed and self-importance.
People have to stop viewing nature as resources to be exploited.
It's already been correctly pointed out that because of the difference in climate, Canadian lumber is harder and therefore superior to American lumber. So cutting down your national forests really isn't a good idea for that reason as well.
Open up all logging, demand California log 25% now. A
1.4B dollar contract from DOE to a virtual unknown LLC with no website. Is it in Colorado or Louisianna? Who the hell is Brian Taylor? Robert Marcotte? Hmm, planning your freedom city? Odd that there's 1.39B available real estate in Colorada.
He can cut down every tree in the US but it will never measure up to the quality of soft lumber in Canada that grows in the far north. It is strong, light and durable and highly sought after by American builders.
Trump & republicans have yet to propose a bill in congress to carry out these programs. Now Trump’s going to destroy national forest. This is what a dictatorship looks like.
Political differences aside, this is an opportunity to partner with the hunters. Block entrances with their giant vehicles, 4 wheelers, and recreational tractors!
This is a terrible decision!
Congress needs to act! Trump has no issue paving over our national forests!
Teddy Roosevelt must be rolling over in his grave
But it doesn't significantly increase the volume. Only 12% of trees were not already available for harvesting. The remaining 12% are in national parks and remote locations. It still leaves the US short by 88% of their needs and the lumber they are cutting is not suitable for construction
Good timber management. Done properly, for density mgmt can reduce the fire hazard. "Timber mining", removing the large trees, leaving the understory and slash, will create a catastrophe. I wonder which approach they'll take?
Putin needs a lot of wood so does donny for his to create his new line of gulf clubs, the donny nr 1 wood, best driver in the world and the new wooden dashboard for the tesla best car without a driver. I think he was hit in the head with a torpedo bat, also made of wood.
Congress— would you be so kind as to ask what the goddamn emergency is? And what less radical options might be available to you— like removing the tariffs?
Why is the king able to just declare an emergency every time he wants to flaunt the laws passed by Congress? And they don’t stop him? How can wanting more wood than is needed be an emergency? Are people dying from a wood shortage?
Unfortunately there is a housing shortage and since we have now placed massive tariffs on Canadian wood, he is going to our forests. He is going to open up all preserves and national parks to anyone kissing the ring.
What if silence was the real weapon? While we shouted Trump’s name into every camera, Biden whispered—and governed. Now Trump’s back, and we’re choking on the smoke we helped spread. Read it. Before we repeat the same mistake.
I'm not sure what they will need to overturn an emergency declaration but probably the same needed to overturn his executive orders - 2/3rds which even if the Dems take back either or both chambers, they still won't have the votes for. They can however make him a lame duck and refuse to pass laws.
"Opening the canopy dries out the forest floor and increases wind speeds, both of which accelerate fire. Logging can also leave behind more combustible species like cheatgrass, an opportunistic invasive"
Logging increases wildfires. We have the most ignorant, anti-science people in charge.
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Because we all know those loggers will rake up all the tree leaves, sawdust, dead plants they left behind, right?
Cause the robber barons are back...
Congress has that authority, not some half-wit regime aide.
Announce all you want. That rubber is never meeting the road.
But it's really good for fear fund-raising.
Hypocrites.
Who needs oxygen at this point?
There is no national emergency.
As usual, Trump is lying.
I've never wished another man dead but...
I’m not laughing.
Do this instead. Blame the 40% of Americans who just couldn't be bothered with the five fucking minutes it takes to vote.
Need an enemy to blame? There you go.
https://open.substack.com/pub/kmeggleston/p/the-bureaucracy-of-trees-vs-the-chainsaws?r=13oyf&utm_medium=ios
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No one seems to care about future generations!!!
I still wish others could see beyond their greed and self-importance.
People have to stop viewing nature as resources to be exploited.
nature gives us warning signs, humans ignore them, to our own peril.
'73 movie seems a bit off in timing but
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soylent_Green
1.4B dollar contract from DOE to a virtual unknown LLC with no website. Is it in Colorado or Louisianna? Who the hell is Brian Taylor? Robert Marcotte? Hmm, planning your freedom city? Odd that there's 1.39B available real estate in Colorada.
Or just derive a more direct profit?
Congress needs to act! Trump has no issue paving over our national forests!
Teddy Roosevelt must be rolling over in his grave
His motto: Rape not, want not.
'YOUR' move....
https://www.nbcnews.com/business/economy/goods-imported-china-are-now-facing-54-tariffs-rate-rcna199401
https://jasonegenberg.substack.com/p/we-made-trump-president-again-heres
Logging increases wildfires. We have the most ignorant, anti-science people in charge.
Trump's offer of a quid pro quo of ending climate fight in exchange for Oil cash has been accepted
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2024/5/22/2242030/-Trump-s-offer-of-a-quid-pro-quo-of-ending-climate-fight-in-exchange-for-Oil-cash-has-been-accepted