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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. [More inside] (www.wilderness.org)

submitted 2 weeks ago by cm0002@lemmy.world to c/usa@midwest.social

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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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[–] AngrySquirrel@lemm.ee 8 points 2 weeks ago (1 children)

They can't log it if we stop them.

[–] Infynis@midwest.social 7 points 2 weeks ago

First, they came for the squirrels, and we stood the fuck up.

[–] Gates9@sh.itjust.works 3 points 2 weeks ago

We are the extinction event

[–] Flocklesscrow@lemm.ee 1 points 2 weeks ago

Someone dig up Teddy Roosevelt and put him to work