Government Announces Plan to Liquidate Millions of Acres of Forest

Now well into his second term, it's no secret that Donald Trump wields his emergency powers like Elon Musk uses slurs. That is to say, he does it a lot. So far, Trump's declared national emergencies to classify drug smugglers as terrorists, the migrant crisis as an invasion, and the International Criminal Court's arrest warrant for Benjamin Netanyahu as infringing "upon the sovereignty of the United States" — not to mention skirting around some annoying procedures which would have delayed his notorious trade tariffs, a move that plunged the global markets into chaos. Now, Trump's pulling another emergency out of his hat, declaring huge rollbacks to regulation meant to protect the country's national forests. Late last week, Trump's Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke Rollins, issued an "Emergency Situation Determination" affecting over 112 million acres, or 59 percent, of the National Forestry Service (NFS) land. The memo declares that the Trump administration will increase timber produ ... Read full article.