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The dismantling of the US Forest Service is imminent
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The goal wasn’t to encourage extraction, it was to prevent over-extraction.
I live in a National Forest that hasn’t had any large-scale commercial logging conducted in it for many decades. It has multiple designated Wilderness areas, and is primarily used for recreation. The major distinction between it and a National Park is that you’re permitted to drive motorized vehicles on the existing logging roads, and collect firewood with a permit.