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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.

  • uuldika@lemmy.ml
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    11 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?

    • sfu@lemm.ee
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      10 hours ago

      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.