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"President Donald Trump is promising to unleash the US timber industry by
allowing companies to raze swaths of federally protected national forests.
The Trump administration quietly issued an executive order Saturday for the
“immediate expansion” of commercial logging on federal lands, setting out
deadlines for officials to figure out how to fast-track permits and circumvent
restrictions set out in the
Endangered Species Act and other environmental
protections.
The order — which calls for the ramping up of the domestic timber production to
avoid reliance on “foreign producers” — was followed three days later by
sweeping 25% tariffs on Canadian products, including lumber.
The United States has an “abundance of timber resources that are more than
adequate to meet our domestic timber production needs,” the executive order
says.
However, it’s more complex than simply swapping out Canadian imports for
homegrown timber, said industry experts, who warned tariffs could end up
increasing lumber and building costs — and even push up housing prices for
consumers.
Meanwhile, environmental groups say clearcutting national forests will pollute
the air and water, endanger wildlife and exacerbate climate change. “Trump’s
order will unleash the chainsaws and bulldozers on our beautiful, irreplaceable
federal forests,” said Randi Spivak, public lands policy director at the Center
for Biological Diversity."
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*** Xanni ***
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mailto:xanni@xanadu.net Andrew Pam
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https://sericyb.com.au/ Manager, Serious Cybernetics
