Posted on 12/24/2018 10:13:05 AM PST by E. Pluribus Unum
President Donald Trump moved forward with policies aimed at preventing catastrophic wildfires while the media breathlessly covered the government funding battle.
Trump issued an executive order Friday to allow for active management of forest and rangelands, including thinning and removing debris from millions of acres of federal lands.
The order also calls on federal officials to streamline regulations and permitting processes to allow the harvest of at least 3.8 billion board feet from U.S. Forest Service lands and 600 million board feet from Bureau of Land Management lands.
That represents a massive increase in timber sales from federal lands. For example, loggers harvested 2.9 billion board feet from Forest Service lands in 2017, according to federal figures. But even Trump’s increased allowance for loggers is still about one-quarter of what was harvested in 1973.
Trump also asked federal officials to do more to maintain roads into hard-to-reach areas where fires can spread.
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Excellent.
Wonderful, but you have to ask yourself where were his Interior, Agriculture and BLM people on this issue for the past two years? I have to applaud the President for taking needed action. Seems like nothing gets done without his direct involvement. I just wonder why he doesn’t get more help from the agencies under his control? Probably a consequence of not cleaning house of all the holdovers. I order to salvage our country 8 years of Trump will not be near enough. I worry that in six years, the idiot voters will turn the White House back over to the RATs, and we will never have a Conservative Government again.
Too bad 75% of the timber mills no longer exist amlnd the loggers that ran them moved on to other lines of work. No quick fix to reverse decades of environmental insanity run amok.
Also no way to wish away decades of fuel buildup from the mismanagement as forestry spent its budget integrating sexual diversity. Forest fires do not care about your sexual preferences.
Make America Great Again will not work without returning to the moral structure that made America great in the first place. Trumps great changes will only be bandaid on a fatal wound if we squander the wealth it generates on out lusts, again..
The people you consider drwe up the executive order
It’s about damn time. As another poster said most of the mills to make lumber out of the trees are gone.
We will have to see if this goes on long enough to bring some of them back.
It’s a start, but the Sierra Commies will have it shut down in days.
Some time ago, there was a long article in Forbes describing a vertically integrated timbering opertation that depends largely on burned over forests for logs.
As I recall the company operates in several western states and has large operational capability in California. Having the expertise and the mills, I suspect this company will be able to move in quickly to harvest the burned forests
I believe the Sierra Club was one of those environmental groups accepting money from Russia (yeas Russia) to block US fracking and LNG production and transport.
One other point on fire protection in the wild, cattle grazing prevents wildfires from spreading.
One way to stop this cheap law suit crap from the likes of the enviro wacko bunch is to prevent them from getting taxpayer money to file those suits.
The problem is with trying to salvage burned wood is that it has to be used within a year of the fire. Then, none of the residuals-sawdust, chips etc, can be used for anything other than wastewood fuel for boilers. Cant be used for particle board, OSB board, paper..
Some species can go longer, but pine and some other softwoods need to be harvested quickly.
They won’t even let you harvest a down tree next to a sawmill.
The mills of old are indeed gone but with today's state of the art lumber mills, they're not needed...........
Amazing Forest Logging Machines
Fast forward to the 4:12 mark.........
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KyYrXEtLx6Y
I’ve run several types of feller bunchers and they are a blast as long as the run but because of the nature of the beast then have a lot of down time..
I hate working on them.
HOORAY!!! (see my tagline)
The head forest rangers are dictators of THEIR National Forest..most were glad to get rid of logging..it involves a lot of work..
ne of the largest fires to burn in California’s Sierra Nevada mountain range, the Rim Fire tore through 257,000 acres on the edge of Yosemite National Park in 2013. Not long after firefighters doused the flames, a fleet of bulldozers and trucks arrived, sent by billionaire Archie Aldis “Red” Emmerson. Workers began ripping up the trees even as the brush nearby was still smoldering.
“We’ll be in there before the smoke is out,” Emmerson boasts in a rare, three-hour interview from his Douglas-fir-paneled boardroom in tiny Anderson, California, which is wedged between the Shasta-Trinity and Lassen National Forests, about two hours north of Sacramento. Emmerson recalls the Fountain Fire of 1992 in Shasta County, 50 miles northeast of Anderson, that burned 64,000 acres and 272 homes: “We had trucks coming down the road that had flames on the back.” At 89 years of age he walks slowly but has no problem piloting his silver Dodge pickup truck to work before 8 a.m., six days a week. Adds his son Mark, who is CFO, “We get in, and we are very aggressive after a fire.”
more.....
https://www.forbes.com/feature/archie-emmerson-timber-forest-fires-logging/#1c21318b64f9
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