Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging
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Yes, this means a ton of carbon ends up in the atmosphere instead of in the trees. The right move would be thinning and prescribed burns, but this administration isn't going to do that.
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Uhm, why can he just decide this? Not part of his expertise or departement.
Trump doesn't like that the US buys lumber from Canada. He's going to announce 34% tariffs on lumber from Canada in the next few days.
Other than the Pacific northwest most U.S. forest trees do not make good building lumber.
The rest is an assault on the natural world.
In addition to the blanket tariffs already announced? Seriously I think that guy might be an evil alien supervillain or something. He seems to be doing his best to ruin the world in any way he can.
https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/us-hikes-softwood-lumber-duties-1.7503120
He's out to cripple Canada's economy, then he'll attempt to invade it. True evil.
I honestly would prefer that. I don't want to think of Trump as a member of the human race. Plus, it would imply that the bad guys are actually competent. The Trump Regime isn't just evil, it is weaponized secondhand embarrassment.
That our government has been reacting to his shit rather than controlling it is infuriating.
Some national parks might be protected by legislation, such as the Yosemite Act of 1864, but massive amounts of land were protected by the executive branch such as Teddy Roosevelt protecting 150 Million Acres of forest and Joseph Biden protecting 674 Million Acres.
Then you also have Treaties with native americans which can be considered law if Republicans actually acknowledged them as such (they don't).
National Forest Service is a part of the Department of Agriculture, part of the executive branch.
Yeah, but he can decide that alone?
He appoints and directs the head of the department who, in turn, can more or less do so. They've been blatantly ignoring status quo and legal authority for a while now, so unless the supreme court gets the case and disagrees, they're unlikely to stop.