Trump admin opens 45M acres to logging. Guess where fires start.
90% of wildfires are human-caused. 90% of those happen within half a mile of a road.
Trump officials are now moving to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to new roads and logging, stripping away protections that have been in place since 2001.
So they're about to remove the thing keeping human access and ignition sources away from the thing that burns. This is what happens when deregulation meets predictable data and nobody cares.
Breaking News: Trump officials are moving to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to new roads and logging, removing protections that had been in place since 2001. https://nyti.ms/4x9EoVt
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