Donald Trump, Executive Order and national forest

New Trump executive orders to increase logging in national forests, could threaten wildlife
President Trump signed executive orders to increase lumber production across national forests and other public lands in the U.S., but wants to sidestep endangered species protections and other environmental regulations.
Trump moves to increase logging in national forests
President Donald Trump has promised to “drill, baby, drill.” Now, he also wants to log. On Saturday, Trump directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up timber production across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.
Trump’s Executive Order on Forests ‘A Devastating Blow,’ Activists Say
Environmentalists say increasing timber production will harm the climate and environment and could worsen wildfire risk.
Trump’s Logging Order Unleashes Chainsaws on America’s National Forests
President Trump on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at undermining safeguards for endangered wildlife and bypassing other environmental protections to radically increase logging and road building on hundreds of millions of acres of national forests and other public lands.
President Trump signs executive order unleashing forest management after LA wildfires
Trump has long blamed California's environmental polices for forest mismanagement contributing to the state's wildfires including January's destructive wildfires in Los Angeles that killed at least 29 people.
Trump’s Executive Action on Lumber: National Security and Trade at Stake
President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders aimed at boosting domestic lumber production and investigating potential national security risks linked to foreign timber imports. The orders call for faster approvals for forestry projects and a comprehensive assessment of the country’s timber supply,
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Merkley chooses fired Ochoco National Forest worker as his guest at President Trump’s address to joint session Congress
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How national parks and forests could suffer as a result of federal firings
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The national forests in Utah where you can go camping all year round
PHkorsart // Shutterstock National forests with campgrounds open year-round in Utah. A s winter settles in, camping ...