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As if the Forest Service has the budget to maintain even more roads... They already can't keep up with all the dirt roads they currently manage for the logging industry.
This isn't about the roads. They will cut a road into all those pristine acres so they can bring logging trucks in and out. They won't bother maintaining any roads once they've devastated an area.
Because the demand and ability magically appeared for them to do that?
Demand is irrelevant. We're talking about an administration who is trying to bring back coal despite no one wanting them to other than those directly profiting off it. They seem to think that anything bad for the environment is a good thing for business. Trump signed an EO back in March demanding increased timber production and this is just him getting back to that.
Cutting logging roads into forests is what logging companies do. They certainly have the ability to do so already so I'm not sure what you mean by that.
Demand is completely relevant. Who are you going to sell all this timber to if there is no demand? If you can't sell it, then you're just wasting money producing it.
Yeah there are roads all over WNC they should maintain but they can't. That is just here. I can't imagine what that would be out west.
I don't remember the source, but I think I heard it the US Forestry Service maintains 4x the amount of roads of the Interstate Highway system to put it in perspective. I imagine logging equipment is hard as heck on road surfaces too.
Send those illegal immigrants out to rake the forests, probably. Why should they get free room and board in detention centers when they can work?
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