Trump, national forests

New Trump executive orders to increase logging in national forests, could threaten wildlife
President Trump signed executive orders to increase lumber production across national forests and other public lands in the U.S., but wants to sidestep endangered species protections and other environmental regulations.
Trump moves to increase logging in national forests
President Donald Trump has promised to “drill, baby, drill.” Now, he also wants to log. On Saturday, Trump directed federal agencies to examine ways to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up timber production across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands.
Trump’s Logging Order Unleashes Chainsaws on America’s National Forests
President Trump on Saturday signed an executive order aimed at undermining safeguards for endangered wildlife and bypassing other environmental protections to radically increase logging and road building on hundreds of millions of acres of national forests and other public lands.
President Trump signs executive order unleashing forest management after LA wildfires
Trump has long blamed California's environmental polices for forest mismanagement contributing to the state's wildfires including January's destructive wildfires in Los Angeles that killed at least 29 people.
Trump’s Executive Action on Lumber: National Security and Trade at Stake
President Donald Trump has signed two executive orders aimed at boosting domestic lumber production and investigating potential national security risks linked to foreign timber imports. The orders call for faster approvals for forestry projects and a comprehensive assessment of the country’s timber supply,
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Merkley chooses fired Ochoco National Forest worker as his guest at President Trump’s address to joint session Congress
Oregon, announced Monday that his guest to President Trump’s address to a joint session of Congress on Tuesday evening will ...
Top official at White River National Forest, the U.S.’ most-visited national forest, takes federal buyout
The U.S. Forest Service is now tasked with finding someone who fits Fitzwilliams’ pay grade who can replace him in an interim ...
After thousands terminated from US Forest Service, some WNC-based staff are reinstated
Some Western North Carolina U.S. Forest Service employees who were fired in a dramatic purge of federal workers have had ...
Fired US Forest Service and National Park Service workers say cuts will be felt on fire lines
Fired U.S. National Forest and National Parks employees are speaking out about the mass layoffs by the Trump administration.
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Northland national parks and forests were already strained. Then came Trump administration cuts
A couple dozen probationary federal employees at the region's national parks and forests lost their jobs in the “St.
US Forest Service Chief Randy Moore announces retirement amid agency layoffs
Amid ongoing cuts by the Trump administration into the U.S. Forest Service, Chief Randy Moore told employees Wednesday he will be retiring.
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How national parks and forests could suffer as a result of federal firings
Understaffing has also been a concern for the U.S. Forest Service, said Owen Wickenheiser, a former wilderness and climbing ranger at the Okanagan Wenatchee National Forest in Washington state ...
Need wood? US Forest Service selling timber downed by Helene to reduce fire risk
The United States Forest Service is offering salvage timber contracts to remove downed but still commercially-usable trees ...