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The Department of Agriculture commits to logging public forests regardless of environmental damage expedite logging on over 100 million acres of Forest Service lands. [More inside] (www.wilderness.org)
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Secretarial Memo would make logging dominant on over a hundred million acres, taking next step towards dismantling Forest Service

Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a Secretarial Memo to expedite logging on over a hundred million acres of Forest Service lands.

The “emergency” memo follows President Trump’s reckless Executive Order “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production” and misguided attempts in Congress to solve the wildfire crisis with the reckless logging bill “Fix Our Forests Act”.

100 million acres is about the size of Rhode Island.

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[-] Sphere@hexbear.net 39 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

It's easy to make announcements like this, but a lot harder to actually make it happen. They did massive cuts to the workforce at the Forest Service--you know, the people who would actually take the actions necessary to move this forward. So they're likely to be somewhat stymied by their own prior actions.

Plus, it's easy to say "we're gonna jumpstart American logging again," but in reality the logging industry is just on the decline in general. Not much use cutting down trees if there's nowhere to send them, and sawmills are closing down in the Northwest, and have been for a while now. I guess a big one in Oregon just shut down recently.

https://newrepublic.com/post/192972/trump-timber-logging-federal-lands-forest-service

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 46 points 2 days ago

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tree_spiking

thinking-about-it

[-] Wertheimer@hexbear.net 33 points 1 day ago

In 2021, President Biden nominated Tracy Stone-Manning to lead the Bureau of Land Management despite her involvement in a 1989 tree-spiking plot.

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In 1989, a friend of Stone-Manning's, and fellow environmental activist, was involved in tree spiking in Idaho's Clearwater National Forest. Tree spiking is a tactic used to deter logging by rendering a tree dangerous to cut, either by a lumberjack or in a sawmill, and is considered an act of eco-terrorism. At the friend's behest, Stone-Manning wrote an anonymous, profanity-laced letter to federal officials, informing them of the tree spiking and warning that "a lot of people could get hurt" if logging were to continue. In her 1993 federal court testimony, Stone-Manning admitted that she had retyped, edited, and mailed the letter. She received prosecutorial immunity in order to testify against the activist. The activist was found guilty and sentenced to 17 months in prison.

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[-] fox@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

Who would get hurt? Innocent saw blades?

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 18 points 1 day ago

One saw mill worker got injured one time.

Still, I think once you've done the tree spiking, it's necessary to tell people for the deterrence to function. Otherwise you end up like the Soviets at the end of Dr Strangelove where they have the ultimate nuclear deterrent but America doesn't know about it.

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago

Still, I think once you've done the tree spiking, it's necessary to tell people for the deterrence to function.

So just say you spiked 200 trees and they start chopping and workers get hurt, won't that work? Or is it the threat that is scary for the corpos?

[-] Carl@hexbear.net 8 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

Doing it at all's illegal, but I'd say if you gave them fair warning and they went ahead and started processing spiked trees then yeah it's on them

[-] SkingradGuard@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

If you spike a tree in a forest and no one is there to hear it, did it happen at all?

[-] Kaputnik@hexbear.net 27 points 1 day ago

Lmao at tree spiking being considered an act of terrorism

[-] happybadger@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

My partner does fire mitigation logging in an ecologically responsible way. Fire's great for the landscape, super intense fire really damages the soil, you have to manage forests that were ecologically disrupted in the 19th/20th centuries. That work shouldn't be impacted by tree spiking that isn't targeted against specific commercial loggers who don't pay their lumberjacks enough to care about opsec.

or higher up where it would affect the sawmill later processing the wood.

three-heads-thinking Sawmills are a highly centralised industry which runs on very thin profit margins.

[-] heatenconsumerist@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Would be a shame if my new favorite hobby was combo tree spiking/mapping

[-] dumpster_dove@hexbear.net 24 points 1 day ago

so basically

think-about-it "can't have forest fires if we don't have forests" ?

[-] marxisthayaca@hexbear.net 14 points 1 day ago

Let a million deserts bloom

[-] Lemister@hexbear.net 20 points 1 day ago

I am sure the destruction of natural forests and environments has no negative effect on agriculture!!!!

[-] ObtuseDoorFrame@lemm.ee 15 points 1 day ago

... now what? We can't let this happen. This is blatantly illegal, which is why they're moving so fast.

[-] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 9 points 1 day ago

There's no reason to be political anymore. They won. They got everything and there is no going back. time to touch what's left of the grass and have all the fun I can before the real collapse.

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 13 points 1 day ago

You would have said that after Hitler was elected if this is your bar

[-] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 1 points 1 day ago

My bar is watching things get worse and worse with no resistance

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 3 points 1 day ago

Just because you aren't resisting doesn't mean people aren't https://hexbear.net/post/4531201

[-] OldSoulHippie@hexbear.net 0 points 1 day ago

Reddit ass comment. You don't know anything about me

downbear

[-] bbnh69420@hexbear.net 7 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I only know what you told me, which is that Trump 2 is enough for you to grill for eternity and stop doing politics. These are people doing politics.

[-] Coolkidbozzy@hexbear.net 12 points 1 day ago

everything is political

doesn't mean you can't touch grass, but everything (including the most remote areas in the country) is a target for resource extraction

[-] DragonBallZinn@hexbear.net 4 points 1 day ago

Trolling time: Promote NIMBYism in these contexts.

“Look, of COURSE I want this…..somewhere else.”

rinse and repeat

[-] SevenSkalls@hexbear.net 2 points 1 day ago

That might work. I know a lot of chuds who love their forests and parks. They love hunting, camping, hiking, etc.

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