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Millions of acres of national forest are targeted for logging under an emergency order from the Trump administration (mander.xyz)

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https://www.seattletimes.com/seattle-news/climate-lab/more-details-surface-in-trump-administration-plan-to-cut-national-forests/

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[-] TheReturnOfPEB@reddthat.com 30 points 5 days ago

since Canadian lumber has a tariff making it so expensive now they will chop down the US forests for the value of lumber is high

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 9 points 5 days ago

On another thread, another lemming explained that our logging industry can't even use the trees from national parks because we've specialized all of our mills to specifically sized (and possibly specific kinds of?) trees. The trees from national parks would basically just end up being used for pulp instead of building homes or something.

[-] Empricorn@feddit.nl 7 points 5 days ago

building homes

You think anyone in this administration gives a shit about the housing situation!? This is an article about our (We The People) national forests! They're stripping the country for parts. Fuck, when's the next date we all protest and march!?

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 2 points 5 days ago

No, I don't think for one second that they care about getting people housed.

[-] Kuori@hexbear.net 1 points 5 days ago

when's the next date we all protest and march!?

not to be rude but why would you think it would matter at all? they know people don't want this and they don't care. power cedes nothing without a demand. the tool you're looking for is violence, not protest.

[-] vaultdweller013@sh.itjust.works 3 points 5 days ago

Yeah American lumber is heavily reliant on forestry since in the long run it's easier, why fuck around building infrastructure and moving equipment when you can just set a couple acres aside and cut them every couple of years. Also I'm pretty sure this also applies to our pulp production so even that would make it a waste of time to go after national forests.

We may actually entirely side step Trump's stupidity and evilness on this simply because the industry has moved on from clear cutting. Also while there are probably some mills that can process Lumber from the parks they are probably specialized and also have their own designated forests, for example the guys who process Lumber for the USS Constitution.

[-] conditional_soup@lemm.ee 1 points 5 days ago

I never underestimate the capacity of capital to fuck shit up. I imagine some dill weed with more money than God is going to monopolize the rights, cut all the trees down that they can, and sit around waiting for someone to come begging to pay them a grip for that lumber. When a buyer never materializes, it'll all just be left to rot under armed guard or burned to keep people from doing anything useful with it. Then they'll turn around and get a fat tax write off / insurance payout, do five more lines of blow to see if they feel anything yet, and call up the five senators they bought this year to encourage them to send more (poor) drug users to private prisons.

[-] Ledericas@lemm.ee 4 points 5 days ago

oh and the type of trees in the us for logging, isnt very good quality so it ends up more expensive anyways.

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