Wednesday, August 1, 2018

Forest “resilience” and the farm bill

Tom Oates
1 August 2018
Front Ecol Environ, 16, (6): 313
On June 21, a 5-year farm bill passed the US House of Representatives with a narrow, partisan 213–211 margin. It incorporates much of the previously House-passed “Resilient Federal Forests Act”, encouraging aggressive forest thinning through salvage logging and eliminating review under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), allowing “categorical exclusions” of areas as large as 30,000 acres.
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