NTD: The Department of Agriculture (USDA) issued a memo on Friday allowing the use of more than 112 million acres of national forests for logging to increase timber production and reduce wildfire risk.
In the memo dated April 3, USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins declared these forests—making up 59 percent of national forests—to be in an emergency situation due to their high risk of wildfires and hazardous tree conditions. The memo was released on April 4.
Rollins stated that the national forests are in crisis due to “uncharacteristically severe wildfires, insect and disease outbreaks, invasive species, and other stressors.”
Those threats—combined with overgrown forests, the growing number of homes in the wildland-urban interface, and decades of rigorous fire suppression—have contributed to a “full-blown wildfire” and “forest health crisis,” according to the memo. more here
Really are bringing back the 80’s now we’ll have tree sitters and spikers sitting at the entrance to the cutting areas.
Who needs a DeLorean to go back in time?
GREAT!!! Cut all the large trees and remove the shrubbery along with building 50 foot wide Fire Roads to prevent massive forest fires like the ones that charcoaled half of Californicate. Have Noem active to scoop up all the Leftist Protestors trying to block this from happening. The end result will be making lumber much cheaper for building projects here in the U.S.
Every anarcho-ecoweenie convicted of terrorism for spiking trees scheduled for harvest needs to be sentenced to work hard labor at a lumber mill, right up close to the spinning bits. But not to be heartless, they should get a little sentence reduction for each lost body part.
Forestry is a good plan, it is what the National Forests were intended for in the first place.
As to ecooweenies, scoop them up and beat the fires out with them… each spike is attempted murder, treat it accordingly. Tree sitters? So what. They’ll come down with the tree. It is their preferred culture to be worm food, and we should not just respect it but facilitate it.
How about private ownership of forest lands like MOST of the south, rather than taxpayer subsidized roads and cheap lumber with ZERO responsibility on the part of the lumber companies? Government mismanagement also takes the form 9f allowing lumber companies to come in and clear-cut. You don’t see that kind of behavior in Georgia Pacific forest land in the south, nor do you see massive fires from neglect.
Ft Stewart has the logging crews in the forts forests. They do controlled burns and harvest telephone poll trees.
This is a really great positive.
Hey, will log the other planets later.
Cut, baby, cut.
Finally some common sense.