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Outcry as Trump plots more roads and logging in US forests: ‘You can almost hear the chainsaws’ (www.theguardian.com)

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The Trump administration has said it will rescind Bill Clinton’s roadless rule, more than two decades after its introduction appeared to mark the end of the bitter battle between environmentalists and loggers over the future of America’s best remaining woodland.

The rule is “overly restrictive” and an “absurd obstacle” to development, according to Brooke Rollins, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, as she outlined its demise in June. The administration is in a hurry – an unusually short public comment period of 21 days for this rescission has just ended, following a Trump “emergency” order to swiftly fell trees across the US’s network of national forests, spanning 280 million acres.

“We are freeing up our forests so we are allowed to take down trees and make a lot of money,” Trump has said. “We have massive forests. We just aren’t allowed to use them because of the environmental lunatics who stopped us.”

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[–] natecox@programming.dev 19 points 2 days ago (1 children)

Maybe, just maybe, “making a lot of money” isn’t the fucking point.

[–] grimpy@lemmy.myserv.one 1 points 2 days ago

waiting for the Make America Kind Again movement