In March, President Donald Trump signed a pair of executive orders to increase logging in national forests and on other federal lands.
Trump’s orders direct federal agencies to set aggressive targets for timber harvests and to circumvent environmental laws such as the Endangered Species Act that protect critical habitats.
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