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End of the week headlines from the DJT administration public lands apocalypse.

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It will not get better; it will only get worse. The Trump administration is on a mission, a mission of pillage, plunder and exploitation of OUR public lands.

They believe it is their divine and given right to use “it” up, preferably within a single lifetime.

Mineral resources – consume them. Oil, Gas resources – consume them. Forests – consume them. Streams – dam them and pollute them. Air - fill it will smoke and CO2. Ranch and farm lands – sell them to big agriculture LLC’s especially foreign companies. Endangered species – let them go extinct.

This is who they are, this is who you are if you support this administration’s public lands policies.

Don’t support them, don’t carry water for them and above all don’t vote to keep them in office.

Fight back, fight for what is YOURs, if you don’t, they WILL take it.

Now to the headlines:


How Trump may bulldoze 'America's Amazon'

America's largest forest under threat

A brown bear carries a fish with a bald eagle perched upon a rock in the background in Tongass National Forest.

And in the little town of Tenakee Springs, the reaction is "one of shock and dismay."

"After all the work that we put in to keep this area roadless and keep this as pristine as we possibly can," fishing captain Tuck Harry says as he shakes his head.

"And would you characterize yourself as sort of a tree-hugging liberal?" I ask him.

He laughs. "No, not at all. Not a tree-hugging liberal at all," he says, looking across a mirror-flat Tenakee Inlet at hillsides once scarred by clear-cuts.

He's been here since 1960, back when the Forestry Service treated Alaska more as America's lumberyard than sanctuary. In an effort to create jobs in the "Last Frontier," thousand-year-old forests were pulped into paper.

But after years of legal battles and negotiations, a Clinton-era "roadless rule" seemed to settle the issue, protecting Tongass from any new logging or mining interests.

But Trump's fundraiser call last month confirmed reports that he would encourage Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Tongass from the roadless rule, opening almost 10 million acres to development….


Trump administration takes key step to open Alaskan wildlife refuge to drilling by end of year

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced final plans to redefine and thus shrink the waterways that must be protected under the law, a move likely to be swiftly challenged legally by environmentalists.

The final plans to repeal the 2015 Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule would stymie the federal government’s capacity to regulate pollutants in wetlands and tributaries that feed into large rivers.

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told a crowd Thursday afternoon that the plans will entirely scrap the prior definition of the rule, relegating waterway protections back to 1986 standards.



'National tragedy': Trump begins border wall construction in Unesco reserve

Wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument, one of the most biologically diverse regions in the US

Construction of a 30ft-high section of Donald Trump’s border barrier has begun in the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument in southern Arizona, a federally protected wilderness area and Unesco-recognized international biosphere reserve.

In the face of protests by environmental groups, the wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the monument. It is part of the 175 miles of barrier expansion along the US-Mexico border being funded by the controversial diversion of $3.6bn from military construction projects.

'Death sentence': butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump's border wall...



Trump administration to repeal waterway protections

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced final plans to redefine and thus shrink the waterways that must be protected under the law, a move likely to be swiftly challenged legally by environmentalists.

The final plans to repeal the 2015 Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule would stymie the federal government’s capacity to regulate pollutants in wetlands and tributaries that feed into large rivers.

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told a crowd Thursday afternoon that the plans will entirely scrap the prior definition of the rule, relegating waterway protections back to 1986 standards.


Make sure you are a public lands voter in 2020 – vote the bums out!

Cheers,

Mark

And Only Our Rivers Run Free
 
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AOC says Miami will be gone in a couple years due to climate change and keeps her up at night.

Glad I bought some property cause sounds like it will all be gone soon. Wow
 
It will not get better; it will only get worse. The Trump administration is on a mission, a mission of pillage, plunder and exploitation of OUR public lands.

They believe it is their divine and given right to use “it” up, preferably within a single lifetime.

Mineral resources – consume them. Oil, Gas resources – consume them. Forests – consume them. Streams – dam them and pollute them. Air - fill it will smoke and CO2. Ranch and farm lands – sell them to big agriculture LLC’s especially foreign companies. Endangered species – let them go extinct.

This is who they are, this is who you are if you support this administration’s public lands policies.

Don’t support them, don’t carry water for them and above all don’t vote to keep them in office.

Fight back, fight for what is YOURs, if you don’t, they WILL take it.

Now to the headlines:


How Trump may bulldoze 'America's Amazon'

America's largest forest under threat

A brown bear carries a fish with a bald eagle perched upon a rock in the background in Tongass National Forest.

And in the little town of Tenakee Springs, the reaction is "one of shock and dismay."

"After all the work that we put in to keep this area roadless and keep this as pristine as we possibly can," fishing captain Tuck Harry says as he shakes his head.

"And would you characterize yourself as sort of a tree-hugging liberal?" I ask him.

He laughs. "No, not at all. Not a tree-hugging liberal at all," he says, looking across a mirror-flat Tenakee Inlet at hillsides once scarred by clear-cuts.

He's been here since 1960, back when the Forestry Service treated Alaska more as America's lumberyard than sanctuary. In an effort to create jobs in the "Last Frontier," thousand-year-old forests were pulped into paper.

But after years of legal battles and negotiations, a Clinton-era "roadless rule" seemed to settle the issue, protecting Tongass from any new logging or mining interests.

But Trump's fundraiser call last month confirmed reports that he would encourage Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue to exempt Tongass from the roadless rule, opening almost 10 million acres to development….



Trump administration takes key step to open Alaskan wildlife refuge to drilling by end of year

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced final plans to redefine and thus shrink the waterways that must be protected under the law, a move likely to be swiftly challenged legally by environmentalists.

The final plans to repeal the 2015 Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule would stymie the federal government’s capacity to regulate pollutants in wetlands and tributaries that feed into large rivers.

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told a crowd Thursday afternoon that the plans will entirely scrap the prior definition of the rule, relegating waterway protections back to 1986 standards.



'National tragedy': Trump begins border wall construction in Unesco reserve

Wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument, one of the most biologically diverse regions in the US

Construction of a 30ft-high section of Donald Trump’s border barrier has begun in the Organ Pipe Cactus national monument in southern Arizona, a federally protected wilderness area and Unesco-recognized international biosphere reserve.

In the face of protests by environmental groups, the wall will traverse the entirety of the southern edge of the monument. It is part of the 175 miles of barrier expansion along the US-Mexico border being funded by the controversial diversion of $3.6bn from military construction projects.

'Death sentence': butterfly sanctuary to be bulldozed for Trump's border wall...



Trump administration to repeal waterway protections

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on Thursday announced final plans to redefine and thus shrink the waterways that must be protected under the law, a move likely to be swiftly challenged legally by environmentalists.

The final plans to repeal the 2015 Obama-era Waters of the United States (WOTUS) rule would stymie the federal government’s capacity to regulate pollutants in wetlands and tributaries that feed into large rivers.

EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler told a crowd Thursday afternoon that the plans will entirely scrap the prior definition of the rule, relegating waterway protections back to 1986 standards.


Make sure you are a public lands voter in 2020 – vote the bums out!

Cheers,

Mark

And Only Our Rivers Run Free
which is better???? to log the timber or just let it burn on the mountain like we have been doing for the past couple decades???????????????????????
 
AOC says Miami will be gone in a couple years due to climate change and keeps her up at night.

Glad I bought some property cause sounds like it will all be gone soon. Wow
she should watch the democrat national debates . puts me out cold every time.
 
which is better???? to log the timber or just let it burn on the mountain like we have been doing for the past couple decades???????????????????????
Exactly,

just like a few years ago in Oregon with the Canyon Creek fire. 73 people lost their homes. My house was 1/16 mile from the fire line. We were on level 4 evacuation. Much of the fire could have been stopped , controlled and slowed down had we allowed thinning of the forest. Hell, just allow people to cut up the old dead fall.
 
which is better???? to log the timber or just let it burn on the mountain like we have been doing for the past couple decades???????????????????????

Depends on a lot of factors, its not just as easy as saying, "hey, lets log the chit out of that place". Typically the most push back you get is from the 73 people that belshawelk said lost their homes in the Canyon Fire. They don't want "their" mountains logged that they live next to. They move to those areas because they want to live in the "sticks" not in the "clear-cut". So, they squawk and protest every time a logging sale is proposed.

There's all kinds of other factors to consider, stand age, species composition, stumpage prices, proximity to lumber mills, cost of road building, and about a thousand other things. Lets also not forget that the American tax payer and politicians have under-funded the land management agencies to the point that even hiring a timber crew to mark timber is a major hurdle as well. Other considerations are lumber imports, NAFTA, and the fact that southern states flood the market with logs, paper, and dimension lumber that is wayyyyyy easier to grow, harvest, and get to mills. Plus, they can grow trees at least twice as fast as many places in the interior west.

Then there are just the market considerations, housing starts, recessions, labor costs and all that.

Sure, if all the pieces are in place, markets are right, regulations our Congress passed are adhered to, it makes sense to log. In a place with marginal/low value timber, that's way short of rotation age, or when there simply isn't any meat on the bone for the taxpayer, loggers, mills, and lumber distributors...no, it doesn't make sense to log when nobody makes any money. In those cases, it makes sense to let it burn.

As far as people losing homes in fires, don't like seeing that either. But, we make choices and if your choice is to live in the woods, then YOU deal with that choice. Defensible space, sprinkler systems, and fire insurance. Not my job to keep your home safe, that's your pig, and your farm...you mitigate the risk with your money.
 
Your standards are a tad frightening if that's your impression of, "assed up". :D


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It's always interesting how many folks just assume they have no risk in fire areas. Every year it's the same story, "protect the structures". Those same structures sitting on a hill with no fire breaks, trees literally touching them.
 
AOC says Miami will be gone in a couple years due to climate change and keeps her up at night.

Glad I bought some property cause sounds like it will all be gone soon. Wow

All them hot latinas relocating to a town near you!
Ice caps can’t peel away fast enough.
 
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