Disclaimer: This is a discussion about government policy (United States) relating to nature and forests, and will thus be inherently political in many ways. On March 1st of this year, an executive order was issued that focused on increasing logging rates across the country (1). The National Forest …

And similarly, the moron-in-chief has opened up the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument to commercial fishing and relaxed commercial fishing regulations generally. https://www.detroitnews.com/story/news/nation/2025/04/18/trump-moves-to-allow-commercial-fishing-in-vast-protected-ocean-…

I’ve always been of the opinion that public federal land should not be used for commercial purposes, period (with few exceptions such as salvage timber harvesting after tornadoes, hurricanes and such). Apparently the government thinks otherwise though

The super rich would probably just sell the timber to loggers themselves though. You don’t typically get to be super rich unless money is your god

Humans in general, throughout time, tend to view [image] jasonhernandez74: any limitations at all as “an undue burden” History is littered with the graves of civilizations that failed due to over-exploitation of resources. Today is the best time ever, in human history, WRT awareness of the …

So many more people should be talking about this!?

People are forming organizations like this; i.e. American Prairie – maybe a well-funded private organization could do it?

[image] DianaStuder: better monoculture. Total oxymoron.

It is, of course, worth remembering that logging can be a good thing. Historically many of our forests were more open than they are today, and returning to this historical state can be good thing, if well planned. There’s a reason logging is a part of many ecologically-minded management plans.

Sure, but clear cuts turned into oil fields or some other thing isn’t the same as an open woodland.

Increasing Logging in the US

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DianaStuder April 21, 2025, 8:24am 10

If you shut down the scientists who are monitoring data.
If we don’t count the lost.
There is no problem!
Everybody happy?

Replace the old growth forest with plantations of a better monoculture.
Perfect.

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Increasing Logging in the US

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