{"id":23130,"date":"2025-03-02T19:25:47","date_gmt":"2025-03-02T20:25:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23130"},"modified":"2025-03-03T15:26:11","modified_gmt":"2025-03-03T15:26:11","slug":"trump-moves-to-increase-logging-in-national-forests","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/?p=23130","title":{"rendered":"Trump Moves to Increase Logging in National Forests"},"content":{"rendered":"
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President Trump has promised to \u201cdrill, baby, drill.\u201d Now, he also wants to log.<\/p>\n

On Saturday, Mr. 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.<\/p>\n

The move appears aimed at increasing domestic supply as the president considers tariffs on timber imports from Canada, Germany, Brazil and elsewhere. Environmental groups say increased logging would decimate American forests, pollute air and water and devastate wildlife habitats.<\/p>\n

And because trees absorb and store carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, cutting them down releases it back into the atmosphere, adding to global warming.<\/p>\n

\u201cTrump\u2019s order will unleash the chain saws and bulldozers on our federal forests,\u201d said Randi Spivak, the public lands policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. \u201cClearcutting these beautiful places will increase fire risk, drive species to extinction, pollute our rivers and streams, and destroy world-class recreation sites,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n

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As part of his executive order, Mr. Trump directed the Commerce Department to investigate whether other countries were dumping lumber into American markets. The inquiry could result in tariffs on Canada, the top supplier of lumber into the United States. In 2021, the United States imported 46 percent of its forest products from Canada and 13 percent from China, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission<\/a>. But the country is also a timber exporter, sending nearly $10 billion worth of forest products to Canada.<\/p>\n

A companion directive signed by Mr. Trump said that \u201conerous\u201d federal policies have prevented the United States from developing a sufficient timber supply, increasing housing and construction costs and threatening national security.<\/p>\n

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President Trump has promised to \u201cdrill, baby, drill.\u201d Now, he also wants to log.On Saturday, Mr. 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.The move appears aimed at increasing domestic supply as the president considers tariffs on timber imports from Canada, Germany, Brazil and elsewhere. Environmental groups say increased logging would decimate American forests, pollute air and water and devastate wildlife habitats.And because trees absorb and store carbon dioxide, a greenhouse gas, cutting them down releases it back into the atmosphere, adding to global warming.\u201cTrump\u2019s order will unleash the chain saws and bulldozers on our federal forests,\u201d said Randi Spivak, the public lands policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. \u201cClearcutting these beautiful places will increase fire risk, drive species to extinction, pollute our rivers and streams, and destroy world-class recreation sites,\u201d she said.As part of his executive order, Mr. Trump directed the Commerce Department to investigate whether other countries were dumping lumber into American markets. The inquiry could result in tariffs on Canada, the top supplier of lumber into the United States. In 2021, the United States imported 46 percent of its forest products from Canada and 13 percent from China, according to the U.S. International Trade Commission. But the country is also a timber exporter, sending nearly $10 billion worth of forest products to Canada.A companion directive signed by Mr. Trump said that \u201conerous\u201d federal policies have prevented the United States from developing a sufficient timber supply, increasing housing and construction costs and threatening national security.We are having trouble retrieving the article content.Please enable JavaScript in your browser settings.Thank you for your patience while we verify access. If you are in Reader mode please exit and\u00a0log into\u00a0your Times account, or\u00a0subscribe\u00a0for all of The Times.Thank you for your patience while we verify access.Already a subscriber?\u00a0Log in.Want all of The Times?\u00a0Subscribe.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":23132,"comment_status":"close","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[34],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-23130","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-science"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23130","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=23130"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23130\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23133,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23130\/revisions\/23133"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/23132"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=23130"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=23130"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medexperts.pro\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=23130"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}