“A rarely used amendment to the Endangered Species Act allows for the creation of a committee nicknamed “the God Squad” to take unprecedented action during emergencies like hurricanes and wildfires. Trump wants to convene this committee to bypass endangered species protections and other environmental regulations to ramp up timber production across 280 million acres of national forests and other public lands. Likely fallout includes increase fire risk, additional global warming, species extinction, pollution, increased wildfire intensity and richer oligarchs…”

Trump’s order will unleash the chain saws and bulldozers on our federal forests,” said Randi Spivak, the public lands policy director for the Center for Biological Diversity, an environmental group. “Clearcutting these beautiful places will increase fire risk, drive species to extinction, pollute our rivers and streams, and destroy world-class recreation sites,” she said…”

• See also this appallingly mistitled Executive Order – FREEING OUR FORESTS: Today, President Donald J. Trump signed an Executive Order to immediately increase domestic timber production and streamline federal policies to enhance forest management, reduce wildfire risks, and decrease reliance on imported timber.
• See also AFRC Responds to President Trump’s Executive Orders on U.S. Timber and Lumber Production