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Posted on 04/16/2025 11:21:26 AM PDT by cuz1961
Fix Our Forests Act would open the door to widespread logging and undermine environmental laws.
WASHINGTON, DC— Today, Senators John Hickenlooper (D-Colo.) and Alex Padilla (D-Calif.) introduced the Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA). In a giveaway to the timber industry, the bill – which is presented as a measure against wildfire – could open the door to unlimited logging across millions of acres of national forests, undermining bedrock environmental and public health laws. House Natural Resources Committee Chair Bruce Westerman (R-Ark.) and Rep. Scott Peters (D-Calif.) introduced companion legislation that passed the House in January 2025.
The Senate version of FOFA arrived less than a week after President Trump’s Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, issued a memo that begins implementation of President Trump’s March 1 executive order to ramp up logging across over half of national forests. FOFA and Trump’s logging directives would both erode environmental laws and make it harder for members of the public to weigh in on government decisions, all of which could devastate forest health.
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so....oregons oldest econazi NPO ( non profit org ) ..huh ?
so...cloward piven deconstructionist socialists then ?
So maybe I could drive on that old, closed forest road again?
I like it. Stealing it.
Come on! Democrats? Aren’t they the tree huggers?
The last time I drove through Oregon I could barely breathe for all the smoke in the air from their untended forests burning down.
The Fix Our Forests Act (FOFA). (as opposed to FAFO).
I find it hard to believe there is not some kind of deceptive angle to this given it comes from democrats.
TIMBER!
That wouldn’t surprise me a bit. They’re presenting this as a measure against wildfire but if it passes they’ll likely sue Trump if a forest fire breaks out.
Part of the USFS’s job is wise harvesting of resources for a fee to the Government.
U.S. National Forests are run by USDA. The Forest Service comprises the biggest chunk of USDA employment. Most of us don’t have any problems with the foresters out doing their thing in the field. Historically, USDA managed forests for sustainable yield, on the antiquarian presumption that trees grew back and so could be considered a renewable resource. USDA traditionally viewed trees as a crop.
As time marched on, management priorities shifted. The natural wildfire-fire suppression-controlled burn debate has gone on for generations. As cities grew, tourism and recreation grew in importance. Soil and water conservation are factored into the management plan, as is wildlife habitat.
The traditional view is that all these factors were relevant considerations in long term management plans centered on multiple uses and sustainable yield. We don’t clear cut steep hillsides, we replant as we harvest, we mix up the logging patterns to ensure preservation a varied animal habitats. Yes, there is room to argue about the precise balance to be struck, but the overarching principles were always mixed use and sustainable yield.
This began to change during the Carter years when Gaia worshippers radicalized the mainstream environmental organizations and really insane fringe groups made their appearance. Every democrat administration since then has pushed hard left on land management issues, and not just in the Forest Service.
The radicals want mixed use to be entirely abandoned and the national forests to be managed essentially as wilderness areas, with minimal concessions for tourism. They’ve by now constructed a lawfare system that empowers paralyzing delay for rational mixed use management, including logging. That’s the balance that has to be righted.
The silver lining of last winter’s Los Angeles fires was that the sheer barking insanity of the radicals got exposed in a way that even the worst blithering idiots in the press couldn’t ignore. Wildfires come with the territory in southern California, but the enviros in recent years eliminated traditional forest management techniques that the state and federal foresters had utilized for decades. And big swaths of LA burned. That SHOULD shift the political dynamic.
And the enviros will lie about it, because that is all they have left.
“…could open the door to unlimited logging across millions of acres of national forests, undermining bedrock environmental and public health laws.“
Absolute utter crap. A gold plated lie. To do anything even remotely like this would be to kill the golden goose. To say nothing of what it would do to lumber prices in the short term.
From the article:
“ If passed, FOFA would allow logging on federal lands without scientific review and community input. The bill truncates ESA consultation requirements to protect threatened and endangered species and limits the right of citizens to judicial review, effectively barring communities from bringing lawsuits to hold federal agencies accountable.”
Oregon Wild is a branch of the Sierra Club who wants wildfires to burn down all the forests.
Time to thin the old growth trees before they die and plant seedlings.
We don’t clear cut steep hillsides
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its called helicopter logging.
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“Wood is mainly composed of 40-44% cellulose, 18-32% lignin, and 15-35% hemicelluloses” - Gemini
That’s 70 ish percent sugars as cellulose is C6 sugars glucose being the main one. Hemicellulose is C5 sugars both can be hydrolysis made from wood plus HCL dilute acid you get lignin as the left overs which is a polymer of aromatic ring hydrocarbons....so similar to asphalt you can hear it up and use it with aggregate as asphalt. You can crack it with heat and hydrogen to smaller chains and you get a critical C12-C20 sized rings for Jet A which must have aromatics in it got seals and cold tolerance. FT paraffins cannot makeup more than 50% of Jet A you just have aromatics and branch chains.
Whatever is not used for lumber is prime biomass for sugars and chemicals too.
Logging? That’s nothing! Just wait until you see what Burgum and Lutnick have in mind for the US’s $151T in natural assets!
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