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Yes, this means a ton of carbon ends up in the atmosphere instead of in the trees. The right move would be thinning and prescribed burns, but this administration isn’t going to do that.

  • sfu@lemm.ee
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    10 hours ago

    No president can ever make everyone happy.

    Trump does this, and people get mad because he’s taking away our trees and ruining our country. Under another president, we instead get trees from another country, and people get mad because we’re ruining that country. (has happened in the past)

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      10 hours ago

      don’t we have enough working forests to satisfy demand for lumber? even if we open some BLM land to logging, do we really need to log literally half of it?

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        I really don’t know. I’m sure we have been importing more than most of us think. I’m guessing it has to do with it not being private property, but already being under government control.