Despite Biden's Promise to Protect Old Forests, His Administration Keeps Approving Plans to Cut Them Down
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Old-growth forests are key to slowing #climate change and to protecting endangered species. In #Oregon, logging in Bureau of Land Management-controlled areas has continued at a steady pace despite Biden’s promise to protect these forests.
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A Biden Effort to Protect Old Forests Hasn’t Curbed BLM Logging
In Oregon’s Coast Range, mature forests can absorb more carbon per acre than almost any other on the planet. Yet logging here continues at a steady pace, putting the environment at risk.ProPublica
Nicole Parsons
in reply to ProPublica • • •Trump plans on privatization of National Parks.
For Republicans, rewarding their megadonors comes before all else.
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As Trump moves to privatize America's national parks, visitor costs may rise
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IronCladLou
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •@Npars01 Perfect. and when the parks fail to “turn a profit”, they will be deemed “worthless” and then leased for pennies on the dollar to lumber, mining, and oil companies.
I fucking hate this man with a burning rage like a nuclear reactor 😡😡😡😡🖕🖕🖕🖕
Nicole Parsons
in reply to IronCladLou • • •@ironcladlou
#TranslatedFromTheRepublican
Republican policies basically amount to "Paving over Paradise to Put up a Parking Lot"
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Truth Sandwich 🇺🇸😱💀
in reply to Nicole Parsons • • •But, but, but... you're disrupting the both-siderism of the original post!