Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production

[Uncensored2008]

Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presiden...iate-expansion-of-american-timber-production/
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. The production of timber, lumber, paper, bioenergy, and other wood products (timber production) is critical to our Nation's well-being. Timber production is essential for crucial human activities like construction and energy production. Furthermore, as recent disasters demonstrate, forest management and wildfire risk reduction projects can save American lives and communities.

The United States has an abundance of timber resources that are more than adequate to meet our domestic timber production needs, but heavy-handed Federal policies have prevented full utilization of these resources and made us reliant on foreign producers. Our inability to fully exploit our domestic timber supply has impeded the creation of jobs and prosperity, contributed to wildfire disasters, degraded fish and wildlife habitats, increased the cost of construction and energy, and threatened our economic security. These onerous Federal policies have forced our Nation to rely upon imported lumber, thus exporting jobs and prosperity and compromising our self-reliance. It is vital that we reverse these policies and increase domestic timber production to protect our national and economic security.

Sec. 2. Directives to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture.

(a) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Chief of the United States Forest Service (USFS), respectively, shall each issue new or updated guidance regarding tools to facilitate increased timber production and sound forest management, reduce time to deliver timber, and decrease timber supply uncertainty, such as the Good Neighbor Authority described in 16 U.S.C. 2113a, stewardship contracting pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 6591c, and agreements or contracts with Indian tribes under the Tribal Forest Protection Act as contemplated by 25 U.S.C. 3115a
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Does everyone understand what this executive order means? It means that the US plans to deforest our National Parks to make up for the shortfall of lumber coming from Canada due to Trump's tariffs. It means that Trump just ordered swaths of our national forests to be cut down, 280 million acres, to be exact. All for cheaper lumber. This EO means bypassing environmental protections, including the 'Endangered Species Act'. The entire ecosystem, wolves, bears, and endangered species could be wiped out just to make timber companies richer. This isn't about helping everyday Americans, this is about helping corporate logging companies.

In the process, we lose clean water, clean air and wildlife habitats. This destruction of our forests harms the environment. Trees are a necessary component for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and cutting trees down to this extent will speed up global warming. Destroying our national forests for a quick cash-grab is reckless and shortsighted. Trump is willing to sacrifice millions of acres of protected land for cheaper lumber.

No, that's not what it means.

But thank you for today's Stalinist meltdown. I had wondered what it would be.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Yeah.....we found that out 100 years ago. Obvious much?

Of course logging can be problematic if laws are not followed.


The US is currently growing more trees than it cuts down.

The nutjobs are pretending that the US is going to be clear cut out of existence.

Logging also contributes to regenerating the forests when managed properly.

AND stops the kind of wildfires that just destroyed Palos Verdes and Malibu.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Slashing our incredible gifts saved by Lincoln and T. Roosevelt is what you would expect from the party of Trump.

Making demons out of National Park employees is about as disgusting as it gets in a free nation.

Are you just making shit up?

Nothing supports your claims.

 

[Airyaman]

Not sure how they can develop a successful reforestation program that quickly.......or maybe they just won't bother.

Maybe they'll just build new Trump golf courses and condos.

 

[Uncensored2008]

I wholeheartedly agree that deforestation contributes to global warming, no matter which country is doing the logging. This concern was raised in the '90s after studies of the depletion of the Amazon rain forests and the effects of global warming were revealed. Canada’s 348 million hectares of forest lands represent about 9% of the world’s forest cover, but account for only 0.3% of global deforestation.

Canada is a world leader in sustainable forest management. Deforestation only occurs when forests are permanently removed, so the land can be used for something else. All areas harvested on public land must be reforested, either by replanting or through natural regeneration. Canada has some of the most rigorous laws in the world for protecting forests and ensuring sustainable forest management, and have been able to consistently reduce deforestation over the past 20 years. Their deforestation rate is among the lowest in the world.

Additionally, a significant majority (94%) of the province's commercially managed forests have received certification from either the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC) or the Sustainable Forestry Initiative (SFI), which are considered the leading environmental certification bodies in Canada for forestry practices. Canada is a world leader in sustainable forest management.

Is the United States committed to focusing on reforesting of acres where lumber will be cut in our national parks? As it is in Canada, lumbering is primarily a private industry, but the majority of the forest land where timber is harvested is publicly owned, like our national parks. Will there be any oversight of the private lumber companies who will be given this sweet contract to deforest our national parks? Will that oversight be non-political? That's the big question.

So you fear this will impact Canada's lumber production. The hyperbole and demagoguery you post is in reaction to competition by the USA.

Got it.

 

[Linc]

Maybe they'll just build new Trump golf courses and condos.

They already have.
These people haven’t seen deforestation abutting National Parks.

 

[Uncensored2008]

Maybe they'll just build new Trump golf courses and condos.

I wonder if the comrades here remember or will admit..

{
Active forest management has been a cornerstone of Gianforte’s response to wildfire, and something he highlights as part of his approach to climate change. On June 9, Gianforte directed the state Department of Natural Resources and Conservation to double the number of acres treated with some mix of logging, thinning or prescribed burning. On July 14 he announced that the state has approved 14 such projects under the Montana Forest Action Plan.

“The reality is, if you thin a forest, everybody wins,” Gianforte told Montana Free Press in a late-July conversation about climate change. “We get more habitat, there’s more wildlife, there’s more recreation. The forest becomes more resilient to wildfire. … it doesn’t burn as hot and it doesn’t burn in the crown.”}

Can ‘active forest management’ really reduce wildfire risk?

Experts say it depends on the fire, the forest and the project.

montanafreepress.org

Log it or watch it burn - one of the two WILL happen.

 

[j brown's body]

I'd rather hang on to our natural beauty and get lumber from Canada.

 

[Mr Person]

<> All cutting on federal lands requires reseeding and silt fencing. <>

Yeah, because Trump is concerned about following requirements.

Who cares if America burns to the ground, if you were able to troll the libs on the way down, eh? Just like a MAGA...

 

[Airyaman]

Trump's plan to cut down more trees faces a host of problems

The Trump administration's plan to boost timber production on federal lands faces pushback about wildfires, environmental concerns and economics.

www.usatoday.com

"Logging doesn’t curb fires, it intensifies fires. Trump falsely claims that more logging will curb wildfires and protect communities, but there's an overwhelming amount of scientific evidence showing the exact opposite," said Chad Hanson, a co-founder of the John Muir Project. "The more trees you remove, the faster wildfire flames sweep through the forest. It gives less time for people to evacuate and less time for first responders to react."

Wildfires move faster because removing trees reduces wind resistance, allowing winds to sweep through faster, Hanson added.

"Also, removing trees reduces the 'cooling shade of the forest canopy,' creating those hotter and drier conditions," Hanson said. "When the forest canopy is reduced, it stimulates the growth of combustible invasive grasses, which like a lot of sunlight. Grasses spread flames faster."

 

[Port & Starboard]

Yeah, because Trump is concerned about following requirements.

Who cares if America burns to the ground, if you were able to troll the libs on the way down, eh? Just like a MAGA...

You have zero idea what it's going to look like, but go ahead and take a seat among the rest of the violin players and pay attention.

 

[HumblePi]

Slashing our incredible gifts saved by Lincoln and T. Roosevelt is what you would expect from the party of Trump.

Making demons out of National Park employees is about as disgusting as it gets in a free nation.

This is even worse. Our veterans are outraged at the job cuts in the VA which affects many veterans who are currently working for the VA.

Alina Habba made a comment that further outraged veterans. "Perhaps they're not fit to have a job at this moment".

 

[Uncensored2008]

I'd rather hang on to our natural beauty and get lumber from Canada.

That's because you hate America...

 

[redbeer]

I didn't claim that 280 million acres will be deforested, only that the areas of our national parks are comprised of 280 acres of trees, all of which is subject to be taken for lumber in the future. There are no lines drawn where it ends.

Harvesting of timber correctly is good for the environment, ecosystems, and wildlife. Opening up of areas to allow sunlight to reach the ground creates a better environment for hardwood timber to thrive.

Both ends of the spectrum are bad, either no harvesting or total deforestation, yet the best is the middle ground, which enhances our forests, creates jobs, protects wildlife and lessens the fuel for fires. By only seeing the bad side you inadvertently side with them causing our forests to be unhealthy with far too much undergrowth and the destruction of hardwood trees within thereby causing an imbalance in the entire ecosystem.

 

[Linc]

I didn't claim that 280 million acres will be deforested, only that the areas of our national parks are comprised of 280 acres of trees, all of which is subject to be taken for lumber in the future. There are no lines drawn where it ends.

They should see the deforestation right up to an abutment with national parks, such as Olympic and Glacier, just a few of the places teaching gave us the gifts to see.

They should live out west where the ‘real fight’ is over water.
This is what uncontrolled, crony capitalism eventually does.
Just like uncontrolled ethnic cleansing and murderous dictators.

I’m the ‘Lucky Man’ who’s been able to see the incredible natural resources in this country, and leave soon again for another epic trip out west.

 

[Port & Starboard]

AND stops the kind of wildfires that just destroyed Palos Verdes and Malibu.

The California fires are usually bad due to type of natural plants and other invasive species along with drier winds. A lot of their plant species have more natural oil content and the oily leaves burn longer and get blown a long way while still burning.

It's a tough act.

 

[Peter]

National parks and medical research are very overrated anyway.

Everyone knows that nature is all part of the deep state plot against Trump.
Just make the US into one large continous city.

Look at this futuristic paradise.

Ecumenopolis - Wikipedia

en.wikipedia.org

 

[ModernDiogenes]

Yeah.....we found that out 100 years ago. Obvious much?

Of course logging can be problematic if laws are not followed.


The US is currently growing more trees than it cuts down.

The nutjobs are pretending that the US is going to be clear cut out of existence.

Logging also contributes to regenerating the forests when managed properly.

When managed properly is the operative term.

Without regulation and referres to call fouls and apply penalties what is to guarantee stipulation with proper management by greedy corporate types?

 

[mike2810]

Trump wants to increase timber harvesting on federal land.
Trump has fired and wants to fire more federal employees who would be responsible for making the increase harvesting happen.

Does that make sense to anyone?

 

[Uncensored2008]

Trump wants to increase timber harvesting on federal land.
Trump has fired and wants to fire more federal employees who would be responsible for making the increase harvesting happen.

Does that make sense to anyone?

Yeah, I don't think that's how it works.


LOL

 

[Grand Mal]

Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production
https://www.whitehouse.gov/presiden...iate-expansion-of-american-timber-production/
By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered:

Section 1. Purpose. The production of timber, lumber, paper, bioenergy, and other wood products (timber production) is critical to our Nation's well-being. Timber production is essential for crucial human activities like construction and energy production. Furthermore, as recent disasters demonstrate, forest management and wildfire risk reduction projects can save American lives and communities.

The United States has an abundance of timber resources that are more than adequate to meet our domestic timber production needs, but heavy-handed Federal policies have prevented full utilization of these resources and made us reliant on foreign producers. Our inability to fully exploit our domestic timber supply has impeded the creation of jobs and prosperity, contributed to wildfire disasters, degraded fish and wildlife habitats, increased the cost of construction and energy, and threatened our economic security. These onerous Federal policies have forced our Nation to rely upon imported lumber, thus exporting jobs and prosperity and compromising our self-reliance. It is vital that we reverse these policies and increase domestic timber production to protect our national and economic security.

Sec. 2. Directives to the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture.

(a) Within 30 days of the date of this order, the Secretary of the Interior and the Secretary of Agriculture, through the Director of the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) and the Chief of the United States Forest Service (USFS), respectively, shall each issue new or updated guidance regarding tools to facilitate increased timber production and sound forest management, reduce time to deliver timber, and decrease timber supply uncertainty, such as the Good Neighbor Authority described in 16 U.S.C. 2113a, stewardship contracting pursuant to 16 U.S.C. 6591c, and agreements or contracts with Indian tribes under the Tribal Forest Protection Act as contemplated by 25 U.S.C. 3115a
_________________________________________________________
Does everyone understand what this executive order means? It means that the US plans to deforest our National Parks to make up for the shortfall of lumber coming from Canada due to Trump's tariffs. It means that Trump just ordered swaths of our national forests to be cut down, 280 million acres, to be exact. All for cheaper lumber. This EO means bypassing environmental protections, including the 'Endangered Species Act'. The entire ecosystem, wolves, bears, and endangered species could be wiped out just to make timber companies richer. This isn't about helping everyday Americans, this is about helping corporate logging companies.

In the process, we lose clean water, clean air and wildlife habitats. This destruction of our forests harms the environment. Trees are a necessary component for removing carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, and cutting trees down to this extent will speed up global warming. Destroying our national forests for a quick cash-grab is reckless and shortsighted. Trump is willing to sacrifice millions of acres of protected land for cheaper lumber.

Trump is lying to you again.
China just recently banned American lumber imports. If America exports lumber, well, you know...

 

[HumblePi]

Trump is lying to you again.
China just recently banned American lumber imports. If America exports lumber, well, you know...

I know he's lying, he doesn't know what the word 'truth' means. He's lying about Canada's fentanyl labs, too.

Trudeau recently said; “What he wants is to see a total collapse of the Canadian economy, because that’ll make it easier to annex us.”

 

[Ikari]

Do we have the mills to appropriately process the lumber?

 

[CaughtInThe]

46 more months of chaos and evil to go.

 

[HumblePi]

Do we have the mills to appropriately process the lumber?

Ordinarily, the US Forestry Service does any of the logging in our national parks. But, I would bet that there's an outside logging company that greased Trump's palm by donating to his election that will get the contract.