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USDA order opening SoCal to major logging called infeasible, unwise
The USDA's order for the U.S. Forest Service to increase lumber ... In fact the aim is to do the opposite: to speed up permit ...
Trump’s push to solve wildfires by expanding logging won’t work
The administration’s plans to increase timber output in order to prevent wildfires are likely to have the opposite effect.
Humboldt-Toiyabe National Forest open for logging under new USDA orders
An executive order issued Friday directs federal personnel to increase timber quotas by 25% on 113 million acres of national ...
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Logging doesn’t prevent wildfires, but Trump is trying it anyway
The USDA has not specified how many acres will be impacted ... logging operations and create a negative climate feedback loop ...
Logging expected to ramp up in local forests
Logging may be expanded in local forestland under a series of recent federal actions that have pleased industry but worried conservation groups. After President Donald Trump's executive order last ...
Los Angeles Times13d
Newsom appeals ‘irrational and malicious’ decision to cut USDA food assistance program
Instead, the USDA announced in March that it was eliminating the program. The agency did not immediately respond to questions about the decision. Cash that had already been allocated and was meant ...
Tennessean10d
USDA order opening SoCal to major logging called infeasible, unwise
The USDA's order for the U.S. Forest Service to ... In fact the aim is to do the opposite: to speed up permit reviews to have logging done more quickly using emergency powers.