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Secretarial Memo would make logging dominant on over a hundred million acres, taking next step towards dismantling Forest Service

Today, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins issued a Secretarial Memo to expedite logging on over a hundred million acres of Forest Service lands.

The “emergency” memo follows President Trump’s reckless Executive Order “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production” and misguided attempts in Congress to solve the wildfire crisis with the reckless logging bill “Fix Our Forests Act”.

100 million acres is about the size of Rhode Island.

  • Wertheimer [any]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    20 days ago

    In 2021, President Biden nominated Tracy Stone-Manning to lead the Bureau of Land Management despite her involvement in a 1989 tree-spiking plot.

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    In 1989, a friend of Stone-Manning’s, and fellow environmental activist, was involved in tree spiking in Idaho’s Clearwater National Forest. Tree spiking is a tactic used to deter logging by rendering a tree dangerous to cut, either by a lumberjack or in a sawmill, and is considered an act of eco-terrorism. At the friend’s behest, Stone-Manning wrote an anonymous, profanity-laced letter to federal officials, informing them of the tree spiking and warning that “a lot of people could get hurt” if logging were to continue. In her 1993 federal court testimony, Stone-Manning admitted that she had retyped, edited, and mailed the letter. She received prosecutorial immunity in order to testify against the activist. The activist was found guilty and sentenced to 17 months in prison.

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      • Carl [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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        20 days ago

        One saw mill worker got injured one time.

        Still, I think once you’ve done the tree spiking, it’s necessary to tell people for the deterrence to function. Otherwise you end up like the Soviets at the end of Dr Strangelove where they have the ultimate nuclear deterrent but America doesn’t know about it.

        • SkingradGuard [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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          20 days ago

          Still, I think once you’ve done the tree spiking, it’s necessary to tell people for the deterrence to function.

          So just say you spiked 200 trees and they start chopping and workers get hurt, won’t that work? Or is it the threat that is scary for the corpos?