The MAGA plan to stop forest fires: Remove the forest | Project 2025 plans to increase commercial logging to fight wildfires. Ecologists and fire experts say this will make fires worse.

My dad has said since I was a kid that the secret to US political stability was the professional bureaucracy keeping everything running no matter who was in charge.

The really bad part is that once it's fucked it is exceptionally hard to un-fuck it. The people who leave find other work or retire and there is no private sector equivalent so you just lose all the expertise. This plan will cripple our country for a generation if it's allowed to come to fruition.

Late stage capitalism has murdered satire.

Can't speak to where that wood is going, but the addiction to profiting from the "green" wood pellets to fuel power plants worldwide is why a lot is being taken. And the ironic part is that wood pellet burning contributes more net carbon emissions into the air than the coal it replaced. But it's "renewable". Except it takes time to regrow trees, and we don't have time anymore.

Also from Oregon and unless I'm mistaken we're one of the better states at atleast trying to be more renewable about it. I thought I remember learning as a kid we had laws about having to plant multiple trees for every tree you chop down. Not sure if those are still around or how strong they are but I feel like we at least treat the environment better than a lot of other states.

Logging is needed as long as its done the right way. Clear cutting is rarely the right way. More thinning is needed in much of the federal lands in the west, or prescribed burning. If not, forest fires will continue to get worse.

Well, it's for the Forth Reich so that tracks.

He wants to cut them all down and give the timber to his buddies to resell at a huge markup now that there aren't any forests let.

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Trump implied that citizens should be made to rake the forests to prevent fires.

A combination of thinning and prescribed burns definitely does better at reducing fire intensity

It doesn't look like a commercial clear-cut operation though.

It's a shame you're getting downvoted so hard, you're pretty much right as far as I can tell. The one thing I would add is that if you do controlled burns properly and cull older trees, all the other trees have a far smaller chance of catching fire. I'm not sure that density or side of the forest matters as long as the trees themselves are healthy.

Honestly you must be dumber than sticks to not understand what is being said here.

There are ways to cut trees to make forest fires spread slower, like for example a firebreak. It can slow firespread to critical areas or even stop it from advancing altogether. There is thought put into a firebreak. Not just reckless cutting.

Drumpf wants to cut "all the trees", because no trees is no forest, and no forest is no forest fires.... Some Idiocracy type thinking if you could even call it that.

Get better.