An Old Growth Amendment proposed by the U.S. Forest Service sounds like a good, protective thing, right? At 201 pages, with 26 pages of references, it should be great.
But it's not.
The Old Growth "draft amendment... includes numerous logging exceptions under the guise of ‘proactive stewardship,’ which allows the agency to log an old-growth stand out of existence,” says Randi Spivak, the public lands policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity. The Forest Service’s proposed plan also gives access to old growth in Alaska's Tongass National Forest, uses ambiguous language that can define an area as old growth but then re-classify it for cutting. Further, the new policy would sunset in 2032. The draft Amendment too weak to give old growth the protection that Biden intended.
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