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Brenda

(1,827 posts)
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 06:15 PM Thursday

The Dismantling of the Forest Service

That changed in 1891, when Congress passed the Forest Reserve Act, which authorized the president to place some unregulated tracts under “judicious control,” thereby mildly restraining extractive activities in the name of conservation. In 1905, the U.S. Forest Service was created as a branch of the Agriculture Department to oversee these reserves, and Gifford Pinchot was chosen to lead it. A year later, the citizens of southeastern Utah successfully petitioned the Theodore Roosevelt administration to establish forest reserves in the La Sal and Abajo mountains.


But now, the Trump administration is eager to begin a new era for the agency and its public lands, with a distinctively un-Pinchot-esque structure and a mission that maximizes resource production and extraction while dismantling the administrative state and its role as environmental protector. Over the last nine months, the administration has issued executive orders calling for expanded timber production and rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule, declared “emergency situations” that enable it to bypass regulations on nearly 60% of the public’s forests, and proposed slashing the agency’s operations budget by 34%.


The administration has been far more transparent about its desire to return the Forest Service to its timber plantation era, which ran from the 1950s through the ’80s. During that time, logging companies harvested 10 billion to 12 billion board-feet of lumber per year from federal forests, while for the last 25 years, the annual number has hovered below 3 billion board-feet. Now, Trump, via his Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production order, plans to crank up the annual cut to 4 billion board-feet by 2028. This will be accomplished — in classic Trumpian fashion — by declaring an “emergency” on national forest lands that will allow environmental protections and regulations, including the National Environmental Protection Act, Endangered Species Act and Clean Water Act, to be eased or bypassed.


SICK MOTHER FUCKERS!

https://www.truthdig.com/articles/the-dismantling-of-the-forest-service/
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The Dismantling of the Forest Service (Original Post) Brenda Thursday OP
There is something truly not right with that man.... Bayard Thursday #1
Chump and his buddies are all criminal psychos Brenda Thursday #2
He does not care about our national forests or the long term effects of ravaging them Martin Eden Thursday #4
The National Forest Service helps... Xolodno Thursday #3
But who will rake the forests? Norrrm Thursday #5

Bayard

(27,187 posts)
1. There is something truly not right with that man....
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 06:24 PM
Thursday

Why would someone want to destroy their own home? Or, if you have Indigenous leanings, your own Mother?

Definition of Obtuse:
An obtuse personality trait describes someone who is slow to understand, insensitive, or dull-witted, often to an annoying degree. This trait involves a lack of quick perception or intellectual sharpness, making the individual resistant to obvious information or emotional cues. While it can sometimes imply deliberate unresponsiveness or a form of "playing dumb," it most commonly refers to a genuine lack of mental acuity or sensitivity.

Brenda

(1,827 posts)
2. Chump and his buddies are all criminal psychos
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 06:31 PM
Thursday

It's beyond greed.
It's beyond being perverse pathological liars.
It's beyond being another freaking distraction from THE EPSTEIN FILES.

The rush to undo everything that has ever benefitted people and conserved the land, water and air is nothing but...

PSYCHO!


Martin Eden

(14,893 posts)
4. He does not care about our national forests or the long term effects of ravaging them
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 07:57 PM
Thursday

All that matters is short term profit and economic benefit he can claim credit for.

Not sure why he bothers, though. He claims for all kind of things that just aren't true, like bringing down the cost of groceries and a booming economy like we've never seen before.

Xolodno

(7,183 posts)
3. The National Forest Service helps...
Thu Sep 25, 2025, 07:09 PM
Thursday

...maintain and manage a lot of the forests in the west. Taking active action to prevent forest fires. This bastard is literally setting up a catastrophe so people will lose homes and possible lives.

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