Trump Regime’s Open Wilderness Rule Will Bring Local Forest Managers Bribes to Sell the Timber to Logging Companies
Here we have another privatization of public assets.
WASHINGTON, Aug 18 (Reuters) – The Trump administration took a step toward rescinding a decades-old rule that protects undeveloped forests on Tuesday in a move it says will help manage wildfire risk, but which environmental groups oppose, saying it would do the opposite.
President Donald Trump has rolled back environmental regulations and taken land out of conservation for purposes such as energy extraction.
The proposed rule filed by the U.S. Forest Service would rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which bans logging, roads and mining in undeveloped forests, and move authority to local national forest managers to decide commercial and recreational uses, according to a press release from the Department of Agriculture.