The Department of Agriculture commits to logging public forests regardless of environmental damage expedite logging on over 100 million acres of Forest Service lands. [More inside]

www.wilderness.org USDA commits to logging public forests regardless of environmental damage

Secretarial Memo would make logging dominant on over a hundred million acres, taking next step towards dismantling Forest Service
Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a Secretarial Memo to expedite logging on over a hundred million acres of Forest Service lands.
The “emergency” memo follows President Trump’s reckless Executive Order “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production” and misguided attempts in Congress to solve the wildfire crisis with the reckless logging bill “Fix Our Forests Act”.

100 million acres is about the size of Rhode Island.

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The Department of Agriculture commits to logging public forests regardless of environmental damage expedite logging on over 100 million acres of Forest Service lands.

www.wilderness.org /articles/press-release/usda-commits-logging-public-forests-regardless-environmental-damage

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https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_spiking
- In 2021, President Biden nominated Tracy Stone-Manning to lead the Bureau of Land Management despite her involvement in a 1989 tree-spiking plot.
  
  In 1989, a friend of Stone-Manning's, and fellow environmental activist, was involved in tree spiking in Idaho's Clearwater National Forest. Tree spiking is a tactic used to deter logging by rendering a tree dangerous to cut, either by a lumberjack or in a sawmill, and is considered an act of eco-terrorism. At the friend's behest, Stone-Manning wrote an anonymous, profanity-laced letter to federal officials, informing them of the tree spiking and warning that "a lot of people could get hurt" if logging were to continue. In her 1993 federal court testimony, Stone-Manning admitted that she had retyped, edited, and mailed the letter. She received prosecutorial immunity in order to testify against the activist. The activist was found guilty and sentenced to 17 months in prison.
  
  Who would get hurt? Innocent saw blades?
- Lmao at tree spiking being considered an act of terrorism
  
  My partner does fire mitigation logging in an ecologically responsible way. Fire's great for the landscape, super intense fire really damages the soil, you have to manage forests that were ecologically disrupted in the 19th/20th centuries. That work shouldn't be impacted by tree spiking that isn't targeted against specific commercial loggers who don't pay their lumberjacks enough to care about opsec.
  or higher up where it would affect the sawmill later processing the wood.
  Sawmills are a highly centralised industry which runs on very thin profit margins.
- Eco Defense: A Field Guide to Monkey Wrenching
- Would be a shame if my new favorite hobby was combo tree spiking/mapping

It's easy to make announcements like this, but a lot harder to actually make it happen. They did massive cuts to the workforce at the Forest Service--you know, the people who would actually take the actions necessary to move this forward. So they're likely to be somewhat stymied by their own prior actions.
Plus, it's easy to say "we're gonna jumpstart American logging again," but in reality the logging industry is just on the decline in general. Not much use cutting down trees if there's nowhere to send them, and sawmills are closing down in the Northwest, and have been for a while now. I guess a big one in Oregon just shut down recently.
https://newrepublic.com/post/192972/trump-timber-logging-federal-lands-forest-service

so basically
"can't have forest fires if we don't have forests" ?

I am sure the destruction of natural forests and environments has no negative effect on agriculture!!!!

... now what? We can't let this happen. This is blatantly illegal, which is why they're moving so fast.
- Check out Eco Defense: A Field Guide to Monkey Wrenching

Let a million deserts bloom

There's no reason to be political anymore. They won. They got everything and there is no going back. time to touch what's left of the grass and have all the fun I can before the real collapse.
- :
- everything is political
  doesn't mean you can't touch grass, but everything (including the most remote areas in the country) is a target for resource extraction

Trolling time: Promote NIMBYism in these contexts.
“Look, of COURSE I want this…..somewhere else.”
rinse and repeat
- That might work. I know a lot of chuds who love their forests and parks. They love hunting, camping, hiking, etc.

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