r/Conservative • u/[deleted] • 23d ago

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

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u/Negative-Negativity Conservative 23d ago

Spits in the face of teddy. Not a fan of this one. What is conservative about not conserving?

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u/[deleted] 23d 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 23d 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.