#Trump admin declares emergency in #California's #federal #forests

The executive action spans the entire state

By Erin Rode, Contributing LA Outdoors EditorApril 8, 2025

"A memo from the secretary of the United States Department of #Agriculture released last week outlines the Trump administration’s plans to quickly expand logging operations in the country’s #NationalForests, which could dramatically reshape the landscape of popular recreation areas in California."

Read more:
https://www.sfgate.com/la/article/california-national-forests-logging-20263873.php

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/K6esm

#FootpathFriday through the #forest
Rugged hiking trail, winding through luscious coastal temperate rainforest.

URGENT! via @WesternWatershedsProject

"There will be a hearing tomorrow on this terrible piece of legislation so we need you to act TODAY! "

Act Now: Oppose the “Fix Our Forests” Act

Tell Your #Senators to Oppose the “Fix Our Forests” Act

"Congress is working to pass the misleadingly named 'Fix Our Forests' Act—a bill that will weaken protections for #wildlife, remove public oversight, mandate livestock grazing and worsen wildfire risks. The bill has passed the House and will soon head to the Senate for a vote. We need your voice now. Please send a message to your senators urging them to oppose this #AntiScience, anti-accountability legislation."

https://westernwatersheds.org/actionalerts/tell-your-senators-to-oppose-the-fix-our-forests-act/
#USPol #USSenate #DefendTheForests #SaveOurForests
#FixOurForestsAct will #KillOurForests and open them up to #Livestockgrazing!

A family of #maple #trees, wearing many coats of lichen on their mossy branches

#ForestFriday - from September.

Backroads, backwoods #hiking in #Sooke.
We saw one other person, with a dog, during 3 hours of exploring #forest & #creek & a nearby river.

#Backroads on #DididahtTerritory.
This is part of the #SanJuanRiver & forests in the valley. The #watershed area is under ongoing #ecological threats by industrial #clearcut #logging. This is near #CarmannahWalbran #BritishColumbia provincial park.
The forests here are longtime foraging, mating & birthing grounds for the #CowichanValley Roosevelt elk herd. The San Juan is an important salmon bearing river. The old growth forests here are home to several #SpeciesAtRisk & #EndangeredSpecies.
There is ongoing eco activism work to try & protect more of the forests & #waterways in this #wilderness valley on Southern #VancouverIsland.

We need serious #ForestryReform in #BritishColumbia immediately. We need to implement the science-based recommendations from experts who were commissioned multiple times by #BCNDP #BCgovernment to produce #OldGrowth Strategic Reviews (twice during Horgan's regime). They promised to implement the recommendations but they have not done so. Our old growth forests aren't numerous anymore & yet our #capitalist driven, #neoliberal government is still allowing them to be cut. In a severe #ClimateCrisis - we're stuck with political leaders who are still siding with ecocidal corporations. We need to ban corporate lobbyists. They never have citizens' best interests at heart & our politicians are too easily bribed.

This pruned #RedCedar #tree has many hugger arms

#ForestFriday #ClayoquotSound