Trump officials plan to remove protections on 2 million acres of national forests in Oregon

[CentralMass]

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"Trump administration officials intend to remove protections and open to some development more than 58 million acres of national forests across 40 states, including 2 million acres of national forests in Oregon.

Brooke Rollins, head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture formally announced the proposed termination of a 2001 Forest Service rule known as the “Roadless Rule” in a news release Wednesday, setting off a 21-day public comment period that opens Friday and runs through Sept. 19.

The Roadless Rule prohibits road construction, logging and mining on about 30% of Forest Service managed lands, intending to protect wildlife, animal migration corridors, watersheds and old-growth from human development and the environmental degradation that often follows."

[sinkingfeeling]

1. I hate these people intent on destroying America.

[Deuxcents]

2. I can't breathe enough to put my feelings to writing..these are Our National Forests..Our Treasures

Everything he touches dies and this will be an environmental disaster 🤬

[leanforward]

3. Why?

Obviously, for the benefit of a capitalist endeavor.

[MrWowWow]

4. If A Tree Can't Make Me Money...

It must be clearcut. Actually, I heard this out of the planet raper's maw:

"A tree has no value if it can't make me money."

That was the mentality/mindset and worldview of the typical planet raper back in the 1980s. Today, very few if any sawmills in Oregon are currently in operation. Trees are clearcut, converted to "clean" logs, and then shipped overseas to waiting buyers..

"Eat a Spotted Owl!"

That line was commonly spewed by planet rapers during the "Save the Old Growth" movement in Oregon back in the 1980s. Never saw any of those Nature haters actually eat a "Spotted Owl" as they frequently claimed to want to do. Saving Old Growth at Opal Creek was a big thing back then. Back then, Taxol (chemotherapy drug) could only be derived from the Yew Tree. That tree mostly only grew under the canopy of Old Growth forests.. Today, Taxol can be made from the Yew tree's needles rather than from its bark. It use to take an entire Yew tree to get one dose for chemotherapy. Now, just the Yew tree's needles are used. The tree doesn't have to be cut down any more. The debate over monetary vs naturalist value of trees still goes on. Now though, lawyers do the fighting in courtrooms. The lumberjack vs tree hugger confrontations in Oregon are definitely not as intense (if at all) as they were during the 1980s. Most of the mills there are now closed. Those workers are now retired or dead. Any clearcutting being done nowadays is done using big machines and not manually. Oregon has over the years, been headednin the direction of becoming one big tree farm of second, third and fourth growth trees. Now, that pace may pick up, with the planet rapers wanting to see that process complete, and a terminally rabid planet raper at our country's helm.

So, what happened to Opal Creek Old Growth Forest?

----->Opal Creek’s old-growth forest was protected for decades, only to be severely damaged in the 2020 wildfires.

[progressoid]

5. Gotta catch up with Brazil's deforestation