Trump Moves to Open National Forest Acres to Logging

“The U.S. Forest Service is aiming to open more than 44 million acres of national-forest land to logging and road construction, a reversal of a policy that protected wildlife habitats for decades,” the Wall Street Journal reports.

“The agency intends to rescind a 2001 rule that blocked most development and timber harvesting in certain national forests, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Tuesday. The new proposal would give local forest managers authority to develop the land, she said.”