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Breitbart by Joel B. Pollak 4/6/2025

The Trump administration has raised logging quotas 25% in America’s national forests as part of a bid to increase timber production in the face of tariffs — and to prevent fires by removing fuel and creating firebreaks.

The San Francisco Chronicle reported:

    In a move that could substantially reshape California’s natural landscape, the U.S. Department of Agriculture issued an emergency order Friday to accelerate timber harvesting across nearly 113 million acres of national forests.

    The directive, announced by USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins, mandates a 25% increase in timber quotas nationwide, with particular focus on areas of California, including the Los Angeles, San Bernardino, Los Padres and Cleveland national forests.

More: https://www.breitbart.com/politics/2025/04/06/trump-raises-logging-quota-25-to-harvest-timber-prevent-fires/

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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2025, 08:22:56 pm »
This will help a lot in Idaho.
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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #2 on: April 07, 2025, 08:26:52 pm »
Anyone check with a federal judge on this.  There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees.  Will a judge side with the maples or the oak trees Or ignore their pleas?
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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #3 on: April 08, 2025, 01:05:50 am »
Anyone check with a federal judge on this.  There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees.  Will a judge side with the maples or the oak trees Or ignore their pleas?
Maybe the judge will just leaf..
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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #4 on: April 08, 2025, 12:42:40 pm »
Maybe the judge will just leaf..
I hope the judge is…stumped :whistle:

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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #5 on: April 08, 2025, 12:57:42 pm »
I hope the judge is…stumped :whistle:

It's clear-cut to many.
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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #6 on: April 08, 2025, 01:15:18 pm »
Bye, bye, bye to Al Gore's spotted owls.
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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2025, 03:40:47 pm »
Bye, bye, bye to Al Gore's spotted owls.
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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #8 on: April 08, 2025, 04:07:12 pm »
Anyone check with a federal judge on this.  There is unrest in the forest
There is trouble with the trees.  Will a judge side with the maples or the oak trees Or ignore their pleas?



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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #9 on: April 08, 2025, 04:16:19 pm »
This will help a lot in Idaho.

I don't think it will make a damn bit of difference.

This is the kind of thing I think is fake AF.

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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #10 on: April 08, 2025, 05:15:36 pm »
I don't think it will make a damn bit of difference.

This is the kind of thing I think is fake AF.

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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #11 on: April 08, 2025, 06:10:12 pm »
:boring:

Seriously dude, look at it.

How many big money guys are going to buy into this and throw millions and millions to put back all the infrastructure it would take to rebuild the logging industry on a mere four years of promise?

*just* to put the mills back into operation is a HUGE investment. Not to mention cats and skidders and prentiss loaders and road equipment, and roads, and tons and tons of logging trucks.

Shutting off federal timber sales is what destroyed it. And it is going to take a hella big fed commitment across many decades to put it back. Twenty/fifty years of guarantees to make those moneybags want to go there.

Just because Tumpy ordains things from his golden diaz don't mean sh*t. Fake AF.

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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #12 on: April 08, 2025, 06:36:40 pm »
Seriously dude, look at it.

How many big money guys are going to buy into this and throw millions and millions to put back all the infrastructure it would take to rebuild the logging industry on a mere four years of promise?

*just* to put the mills back into operation is a HUGE investment. Not to mention cats and skidders and prentiss loaders and road equipment, and roads, and tons and tons of logging trucks.

Shutting off federal timber sales is what destroyed it. And it is going to take a hella big fed commitment across many decades to put it back. Twenty/fifty years of guarantees to make those moneybags want to go there.

Just because Tumpy ordains things from his golden diaz don't mean sh*t. Fake AF.

That is NOT what is happening here.
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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #13 on: April 08, 2025, 06:57:23 pm »
That is NOT what is happening here.

Well it's sure as hell happened here. It's ALL GONE! So what if there's timber sales if there ain't no one to buy em?

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Re: Trump Raises Logging Quota 25% to Harvest Timber, Prevent Fires
« Reply #14 on: April 08, 2025, 10:19:29 pm »
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