This Bill to Reduce Wildfires Might Actually Make Them Worse

https://newrepublic.com/article/190628/fix-our-forests-act-california-logging

by thenewrepublic

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  1. >The Fix Our Forests Act, which breezed through a House vote last week, represents a “return to common sense,” according to Speaker Mike Johnson. “The reason this is so important is because we see what happened in California,” Johnson said. The recent wildfires that have left at least 26 dead and nearly 15,000 structures destroyed, he has also suggested, are partly the fault of “water resource mismanagement, forest management mistakes, all sorts of problems,” which should be fixed before those suffering receive further federal aid.

    >The Fix Our Forests Act would allow loggers to more easily thin forests by reducing environmental regulations and public input. The thinking is that reducing tree counts means reducing wildfire fuel. Yet environmental groups including Sierra Club and Earthjustice say that the bill would cause more fires, not fewer.

  2. Logging industry is frothing at the mouth right now. Using a disaster that had nothing to do with a forest filled with trees to completely destroy and profit off of what little natural forests we have left. The logging industry plays a huge role in how destructive wildfires are because of how timber forests are planted. Tightly packed single specifies trees that burn like gasoline and are completely lifeless at the forest floor because of the lack of sunlight. SMH.

  3. If it ain’t broke give it to a republican and it’ll be broken shortly.

  4. Oh Mike Johnson can fuck all the way off for using the loss of two entire Los Angeles communities as cover for deregulation of the fucking *logging* industry.

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