Logging doesn’t prevent wildfires, but Trump is trying it anyway

Photo credit: USDA photo by Lance Cheung via Flickr. Public domain. Article by Ayurella Horn-Muller. Grist – April 10, 2025. Executive order: The White House.

In an emergency directive issued late last week, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced her department’s plan to expand logging and timber production by 25 percent and, in the process, dismantle the half-century-old environmental review system that has blocked the federal government from finalizing major decisions concerning national forest lands without public insight. […]

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