The United States has announced sweeping changes to encourage more logging in the country's national forests. A new emergency order requires rolling back environmental protections on almost 60% of the national forests,

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins issued a new memo on Monday, aimed at reversing “heavy-handed federal policies and [increasing] domestic timber production to protect our national and economic security.

The order affecting 100 million acres of public land comes on the heels of a separate Trump administration directive to expand American timber production by 25%.