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Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging (wapo.st)
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Yes, this means a ton of carbon ends up in the atmosphere instead of in the trees. The right move would be thinning and prescribed burns, but this administration isn't going to do that.

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[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 85 points 3 months ago

Uhm, why can he just decide this? Not part of his expertise or departement.

[-] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 48 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

Trump doesn't like that the US buys lumber from Canada. He's going to announce 34% tariffs on lumber from Canada in the next few days.

[-] rayyy@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago

Other than the Pacific northwest most U.S. forest trees do not make good building lumber.

[-] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 3 points 3 months ago

The rest is an assault on the natural world.

[-] stormdahl@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

In addition to the blanket tariffs already announced? Seriously I think that guy might be an evil alien supervillain or something. He seems to be doing his best to ruin the world in any way he can.

[-] johncandy1812@lemmy.ca 10 points 3 months ago

https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-hikes-softwood-lumber-duties-1.7503120

He's out to cripple Canada's economy, then he'll attempt to invade it. True evil.

[-] suite403@lemmy.world 13 points 3 months ago

That our government has been reacting to his shit rather than controlling it is infuriating.

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago

National Forest Service is a part of the Department of Agriculture, part of the executive branch.

[-] MonkderVierte@lemmy.ml 2 points 3 months ago

Yeah, but he can decide that alone?

[-] untorquer@lemmy.world 6 points 3 months ago

He appoints and directs the head of the department who, in turn, can more or less do so. They've been blatantly ignoring status quo and legal authority for a while now, so unless the supreme court gets the case and disagrees, they're unlikely to stop.

[-] MountainVeil@slrpnk.net 2 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago)

It's the goal of project 2025 that he is able to.

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