Biden administration withdraws old-growth forest plan after getting pushback from industry and GOP
Associated Press— The Biden administration on Tuesday abruptly dropped its nascent plan to protect old-growth forests after getting pushback from Republicans and the timber industry. “There was also feedback that there are important place-based differences that we will need to understand in order to conserve old-growth forests.” Montana Republican U.S. Sen. Steve Daines in a statement called the withdrawal of the old-growth plan a “victory for commonsense local management of our forests.” Most old-growth stands fell to logging as the nation developed. Logging on federal lands cut down about 14 square miles of old-growth forest — and timber industry representatives have said that figure shows further restrictions aren’t needed. Bill Imbergamo with the Federal Forest Resource Coalition, an industry group, called the administration’s proposal “legally dubious and ecologically flawed.” “All this exercise showed was that older forests are widespread on the national forest system.
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