FROM KSBW”The order calls for a 25% increase of timber quotas across the country’s national forests. A map that was issued with the order shows large portions of California have been targeted, including the Los Padres national forest.

“We’re aware of the new direction but have not yet received guidance on how to implement it,” wrote an official with the Los Padres National Forest in response to KSBW’s inquiry.

In 2018, during Trump’s first administration, the Forest Service approved a large commercial logging project in the southern region of the Los Padres National Forest – the first of its kind in over a decade.”