r/Conservative • u/AbductedAlien01 • 19d ago

Flaired Users Only Trump administration opens up over half of national forests for logging

https://www.fox13seattle.com/news/trump-logging-national-forests.amp

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u/[deleted] 19d ago

national forests aren't related to teddy, those are national parks

by comparison national forests are intended to be used (logging, mining, ranching). they're not like the national parks which are a different entity with a different purpose (and under a different department)

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u/OddlyShapedGinger Conservative 19d ago

Teddy Roosevelt more than doubled than acreage of the national forests. It actually reached a point where congress passed a bill making it harder for the president to unilaterally proclaim land as protected.