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Trump administration orders half of national forests open for logging
The Trump administration has removed environmental protections covering more than half the land managed by the U.S. Forest Service as part of the president’s aim to significantly bolster the U.S. logging industry.
In a memo issued Thursday, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said “heavy-handed federal policies” have prevented the United States from making use of its “abundance of timber resources that are more than adequate to meet our domestic timber production needs.”