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The Biden administration is advancing its plan to restrict logging within old-growth forests that are increasingly threatened by climate change.
The proposal includes exceptions that include cutting trees to make forests less susceptible to wildfires.
The timber industry and Republicans in Congress have pushed back against any new restrictions.
The proposed changes mark a shift for an agency that has historically promoted logging.
Environmentalists lobbied unsuccessfully for the Forest Service to extend old-growth logging restrictions to mature forests.
That means those forests remain exposed to potential commercial logging.
Under former President Trump , federal officials sought to open up huge areas of West Coast forests to potential logging.
Federal wildlife officials reversed the move in 2021 after determining that political appointees under Trump relied on faulty science.
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