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.”
FOREST ORDER NO. 05-07-51-26-03USDA FOREST SERVICELOS PADRES NATIONAL FORESTSAN CARPOFORO BEACH OVERNIGHT CAMPING AND CAMPFIRE…
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Greed and shortsighted. What a travesty.
OMG . . .
Frankly, I don’t see HOW this can happen up here as our roads cannot handle logging trucks and there is really no way to improve them.
This is not a good idea. What are the National Forests for if not for conservation?
I am totally against what this tRUMP administrtion is suggesting.
#MakeTheCall☎️
Call your Members of Congress. Register your concerns with your Boards of Supervisors. Do not be silent!
We must protest with vigor the proposed logging of redwood trees in our national forests, but most particularly in our Ventana Wilderness area. Who remembers Margaret Owings chaining herself to the redwood tree beside the highway when Cal Trans wanted to widen the road? That beautiful shaded part of Highway 1 in Big Sur is precious. The edicts coming out of the White House are short sighted and destructive to our national forests and wildlands.
My heart hurts
Thank you for posting this Kate. The logging that will likely happen in the Los Padres is in the southern part near places like Pine Mountain and Mt Pinos. The image to the public will be "fire protection" but it will really be for the profit of the timber industry executives. Trump made Tom Schultz the head of the USFS and he is a former timber executive at Idaho Forest Group. Here is a link from the Los Padres Forest Watch Campaign that should be shared: https://p2a.co/mIxZW1V
Arguments cut both ways on this one. I am not sufficiently informed to provide a competent opinion. If logging is very selective and targeted, fuel for potential fires is reduced along with economic potential increased. Loss of trees is loss of beauty, decrease in co2 absorption, loss of wildlife habitat. Am trusting in greater good.
Hopefully it will get held up in the courts. Another big issue is losing federal funding for fire mitigation.