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US Policies are a Race-to-the Bottom for Nations Trying to End Forest Losses by 2030

Google Earth Image of the “checkerboard” pattern of alternating private lands (with clearcuts) and BLM lands (US federal land; remaining green areas between clearcuts) in southern Oregon. Onshore logging does nothing to solve domestic forest losses or global deforestation.
Google Earth Image of the “checkerboard” pattern of alternating private lands (with clearcuts) and BLM lands (US federal land; remaining green areas between clearcuts) in southern Oregon. Onshore logging does nothing to solve domestic forest losses or global deforestation.

“Rapid loss of the natural world is in no one’s best interest. Increasing domestic logging is a race to the bottom to feed the endless consumption of wood products with increasingly dire ecological and climate consequences.”

Read the full article from CounterPunch click HERE

by Dominick A. Dellasala, Philip J. Burton, David Lindenmayer, Jörg Müller, Karen Price, Diana L. Six and Philip Zylstra