America Returns To Active Forest Management

President Trump fired a double-barrel shotgun at the long-held preservationist U.S. mantra that for nearly a century has dealt heavy blows to American forests, forest animals, and the humans whose homes abut government forest lands.

The order also returns to the wisdom of indigenous communities, who managed American forests with fire for millennia, writes Duggan Flanakin .

An early test of the Trump forest policy is playing out in fire-ravaged San Bernardino , thanks to an emergency order issued by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins to increase timber quotas in America ’s national forests by 25% .

Still, charred portions of the forest burned in the Eaton Fire remain at “significant” risk of debris flows, flooding, and mudslides.