Stop Trumpâs Plan for BLM to âMaximize Timber Productionâ in Oregon
The Trump administration is planning to revise the Resource Management Plans (RMPs) that guide the Bureau of Land Managementâs (BLM) management of 2.5 million acres of Western Oregonâs public forests.
The Trump led proposal would undo decades of hard fought conservation work and put large swaths of mature and old growth forests on the chopping block.
These forests provide critical habitat for endangered species and sequester incredible amounts of carbon. They are also naturally more fire resilient than the monocrop plantations that the BLM would replace them with.
BLMâs Notice of Intent makes it clear that the purpose of these revisions is to increase industrial logging to âthe maximum productive capacity of the landsâ.
This would mean the elimination of the last stands of mature and old growth on BLM lands and could lead to the extinction of endangered species like the Northern Spotted Owl and Marbled Murrelet.
Comments are due by Monday, March 23:
https://birdallianceoregon.org/take-action/stop-trumps-plan-for-blm-to-maximize-timber-production-in-oregon
This is the first step in the process, called âscoping.â While there may be future opportunities to comment, itâs critical to make our voices heard as early in the process as possible!
photograph of Northern Spotted Owl by Scott Carpenter
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