Government Announces Plan to Liquidate Millions of Acres of Forest

Now in his second term, it is not a secret that Donald Trump carries his emergency powers such as Elon Musk uses insults.

This means that he does so a lot. Until now, Trump has declared national emergency situations to classify drug traffickers as terrorists, the migrant crisis as an invasion, and the memorandum of arresting the International Criminal Court of Benjamin Netanyahu as violating “sovereignty in the United States” – not to mention the disposal of some annoying measures that delay bored trade materials.

Now, Trump withdrew another state of emergency from his hat, announcing huge regulations aimed at protecting the country National forests.

At the end of last week, the Minister of Agriculture in Trump, Brock Rollins, issued a “identification of the state of emergency”, which affects more than 112 million acres, or 59 percent, from the lands of national forest service (NFS). The memo announces that the Trump administration will increase wood production by 25 percent, and contains long -term plans to evade regulations that protect national lands.

The memorandum cited a national forest crisis due to “severe forest fires, insects and diseases, invasive types, and other pressures”, which, are, hey – fair enough!

Unfortunately for trees, the supposed reform of Rollins for all of this is “the removal of the operations of the National Environmental Policy law (NEPA), the reduction of implementation and contracting gowns, and working directly with the states, local government and forest products producers to ensure that forest service provides reliable and consistent supplies of wood.”

Nepa bit is important. Since 1969, the NEPA law has stopped as a defense line against companies that prefer to cut them first and request later, allowing citizens, activists and researchers to carry out decisions affecting federal lands. For example, the Keystone XL pipeline was successfully closed after a judge spent that the US State Department had failed to share its findings on environmental effects, violating the Nepa.

If Nepa goes away, registration companies can start cutting federal forests without having to calculate their actions, before or after. Along with a “25 percent high” in cutting of trees, the memo is largely vague about how to treat the risk of fires in the wild or outbreaks of insects.

Looking at the severe cuts in Trump and grabbing forest workers in critical areas, in other words, this declaration of emergency reads less as a good attempt to save trees “-and is similar to a toxicity to make tree cutting that has a long history of dividing the natural resources of America.

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