Conversations surrounding forest management can quickly turn combative, as conservationists advocate for active forest management, but some environmentalists push for a hands-off approach.
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Forest management Trump claimed that people in California who once scoffed at his criticism of the state's forest management policies later acknowledged that he was correct.
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President Donald Trump blamed poor forest management for the fires.
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Guess who cut funding to forest management in the budget?
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Little wonder he ignorantly blames forest management for this tragedy.
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Canada is generally seen as being good at forest management.
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Forest management is the indispensable second half of the puzzle.
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The certification refers to approved forest management for its paper products.
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"Poor forest management" is a dog whistle for logging interests.103.
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The problem came up when she was working in forest management.
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The statement suggests that California's forest-management problems are at fault.
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Changes in forest management have also fanned the flames, specialists say.
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There may be cases where active forest management negatively impacts endangered species.
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He blamed the fires on what he described as "poor" forest management.
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Failure to follow a rational forest management will put us in peril.
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Finland's forest management practices are not a panacea and don't center around raking.
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His father owned C.S. Bond Forest Management, a timber management company in Springville.
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A logger surveys an area designated by forest management for dead tree removal.
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The second factor making the state more fire-prone is poor forest management.
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It's only a matter of time before he complains about forest management again.
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"Better forest management will help to reduce the damage from wildfires," Bloomberg said.
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That's a scenario that could nudge the state into rethinking its forest management.
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Also, it's bizarre, and cruel, to link FEMA aid with federal forest management.
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He hopes Grizz Tracker will help to inform best-practices in sustainable forest management.
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Surely the president is trying to convince California to adopt better forest management policies.
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Regardless, poor forest management isn't to blame for the severity of these particular fires.
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With proper Forest Management, we can stop the devastation constantly going on in California.
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Trump has often blamed poor forest management, rather than climate change, for those fires.
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Forest management has been further weakened by budget cuts during the recent financial crisis.
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We absolutely have to engage and increase our pace and scale of forest management.
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It could have had something to do with it, but you need forest management.
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Forest management and population growth are also factors, but they don't explain the entire situation.
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President Donald Trump says that poor forest management is the sole cause of the blaze.
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The president also has a long history of making unverified claims about California's forest management.
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Suzanne Simard discovered a conversation between different species of trees that could revolutionize forest management.
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Current forest management policies are arbitrary, outdated and unresponsive to changing conditions on the ground.
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Colbert cited Trump's tweet which blamed "poor" forest management and threatened to withdraw federal payments.
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There could be instances where some timber companies might misuse these active forest management policies.
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This proposal will remove barriers to critical forest management work, while still allowing for collaboration.
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It's not as though California policymakers had been ignoring forest management before Trump weighed in.
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Hlasny's team said forest management in the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Poland could still do more.
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Congress can continue to allow forest owners to deduct or expense forest management and reforestation expenses.
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There's a lot of misinformation out there about what forest management means and what it doesn't.
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The 2016 plan made crucial progress in protecting our natural heritage and implementing sustainable forest management.
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" Rice also said Trump's assertion that California's forest management policies are to blame "is dangerously wrong.
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After fires ravaged California last year, the president suggested it was caused by poor forest management.
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"Our forest management is more complex than a private industry," Bergvall told me over the phone.
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Dzulkifli said revised forestry laws should promote better forest management and encourage livelihoods beside mass logging.
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Nonetheless, the agency said, the annual rate of loss had slowed appreciably as forest management improved.
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Active forest management and forest restoration can significantly diminish the severity of damage caused by fire.
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But the Lebanese government did not adopt any additional fire prevention or forest management measures, he said.
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It is the federal government that has chosen to divert resources away from forest management, not California.
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The fires in So. Cal are urban interface fires and have NOTHING to do with forest management.
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"I think the forest management community is starting to think more about what they're planting," Woodall says.
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Republicans have been pushing "active" forest management for years and accusing greens of risking lives and property.
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On Thursday, Brown signed an executive order that will spend an additional $96 million on forest management.
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Active forest management can prevent — or at least stall — some of the worst impacts of climate change.
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The president also referenced Finland's style of forest management during an interview with Fox News' Chris Wallace.
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Zinke pushed the need for increased forest management — or logging, a talking point routinely tweeted by Trump.
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" Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue joined Zinke on Tuesday to advocate for an approach called "active forest management.
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Calling forest management "a very big problem," he said he had discussed the topic with Mr. Brown.
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Mr. Trump is suggesting that forest management played a role, but California's current wildfires aren't forest fires.
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" Freedman pointed out that Finland's forest management practices "are not a panacea and don't center around raking.
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Forest management practices, however, though often overlooked, may hold the key to preventing such destruction going forward.
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Lastly, forest management is much more complicated than removing dead leaves and fallen branches as Trump claimed.
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Details: Forest management has a significant but complicated role in the fires, especially in central and northern California.
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Mass says the key is proper forest management: Clearing out excess fuel and doing low-level prescribed burns.
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Today, I am here to say that the current federal forest management practices are not fulfilling that promise.
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Congressional Democrats from California quickly slammed Trump and doubted his ability to withhold FEMA funds over forest management.
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That is why it is essential and timely that the 2628 farm bill includes strong forest management reforms.
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As I've written about before, active forest management is critical in alleviating our nation's crippling forest fires. Sec.
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The President blamed Newsom's forest management and state water policies for the frequency and magnitude of the fires.
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California forest management Trump also poked fun at California's canceled bullet train, said he liked Democratic California Gov.
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When California was fighting deadly fires last November, he tweeted out similar criticisms of the state's forest management.
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About 17.6 million American forest landowners have never had assistance with forest management — a reality Congress can change.
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We cannot fully address the core problems of active forest management and improving agency processes without both reforms.
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California needs to change its approach to forest management, Ash Ngu and Sahil Chinoy have argued in The Times.
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" The following day he added, "With proper Forest Management, we can stop the devastation constantly going on in California.
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" The Pasadena Fire Association also corrected the president, writing that the fires "have NOTHING to do with forest management.
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Some people are taking conservation in their own hands Climate change has already altered how we approach forest management.
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Lummis told The Hill that if chosen for the role she would focus on forest management and wildfire controls.
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"It is the federal government that has chosen to divert resources away from forest management, not California," Rice said.
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State and federal officials already spend hundreds of millions of dollars each year on forest management and fire prevention.
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Second, we need to change our forest management and restoration model to get rural economies and rural lands working.
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We can play "carbon offense" by expanding forests with tree planting and adjusting forest management to increase carbon capture.
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The Resilient Federal Forests Act works by addressing the bureaucracy and litigation issues that drive federal forest management today.
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The President previously blamed poor forest management for California fires in 2018, shortly before he met then Lt. Gov.
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Fact Check On Twitter, the president claimed that the state's wildfire woes are a result of poor forest management.
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On Twitter, Trump blamed poor "forest management" for the fires and threatened to withhold federal funds for disaster relief.
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These discoveries are contributing toward a template for forest management that might ensure the coexistence of tree and community.
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Nature-based approaches include reforestation and forest management as well as agricultural practices that increase carbon stored in soils.
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"I think you have a lot of factors," said the president, who then again spoke about forest management and maintenance.
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These are factors that better forest management may not be able to overcome when it comes to preventing major fires.
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Again, the president in January renewed his attack on California's forest management practices and threatened to cut off federal aid.
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The president signed a declaration to give funding to California but has continued to criticize state officials about forest management.
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After years of these negotiations and community conversations, the Forest Service finalized a new Tongass Forest Management Plan on Dec.
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Jerry Brown (D) blamed climate change at a press conference Sunday, days after Trump blamed the state's forest management programs.
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And President Trump has claimed to have extensive knowledge on a vast array of topics from forest management to drones.
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Dale L. GoodhueAthens, Ga. To the Editor: President Trump blames poor forest management for the current forest fires in California.
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What prevents most from taking action is a lack of technical expertise and the high cost of conducting forest management.
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Decades of scientific knowledge about forest management have not managed to halt clear-cutting and unsustainable development, Dr. Ellison said.
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The primary subject of the dispute was not the idea that good forest management can play a role in combating wildfires.
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When asked if future fires could be prevented, the president spoke about forest management — a topic he tweeted about last week.
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The IPCC is now planning to release a special report this year focusing on land use, which will include forest management.
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He publicly blamed "gross mismanagement" for the devastating wildfires, saying it was largely caused by poor "forest management" in tweets. 5.
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But tried-and-true methods like better forest management, planting forests, and keeping carbon in farm soil are exceptionally land-intensive.
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As the Camp Fire raged in November, Trump threatened to withhold federal payments to the state unless officials addressed forest management.
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But critics say the state needs to do more on forest management, including allowing more logging to prevent fires from starting.
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Gavin Newsom (D), with whom the president said he had discussed forest management as a possible reason for the wildfires' ferocity.
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Inslee blames climate change for the forest fires while Zinke lays the blame on environmental groups that impede active forest management.
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Zinke and Perdue instead pushed active forest management as a way to prevent such big fires from becoming the new normal.
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"Thai authorities should halt all criminal prosecutions against community members, and review the policy on land and forest management," she said.
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Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen.
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"We're getting close to creating a cycle of feedbacks," said Christie Klimas, who researches tropical forest management and conservation at DePaul University.
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Active forest management through deliberately starting fires, removing trees, and strategically planting new ones can drastically reduce fire risks in some areas.
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USDA office move may have broken law, watchdog says MORE to preach increased forest management — a word often used to describe logging.
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In fact, federal agencies have had programs to do this and other forest management work to reduce wildfire disasters for many years.
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The best, for example in Denver, Flagstaff and Santa Fe, include provisions for downstream water-users to help pay for forest management.
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USDA office move may have broken law, watchdog says MORE to preach increased forest management -- a word often used to describe logging.
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As Congress returns from its August recess, it's time for the federal government to turn its attention to reforming forest management policies.
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During Donald Trump's visit to California over the weekend, the president managed to slip in a criticism of the state's forest management.
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In tweets over the weekend, Trump blamed poor forest management for the blazes and threatened to withhold emergency funding from the state.
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This is a problem because it reduces funds for national forest management, research and development, and support for state and private forestry.
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" -- November 313 exchange with reporters before Marine One departure "The Governor of California, @GavinNewsom, has done a terrible job of forest management.
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" The World Resources Institute says that when it comes to land use, better forest management has the "largest potential for reducing emissions.
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" The World Resources Institute says that when it comes to land use, better forest management has the "largest potential for reducing emissions.
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When the wildfires started scorching California last week, Trump blamed the flames on poor forest management and threatened to cut federal funding.
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Perhaps Sagehen's most important legacy is cultural: persuading the Sierra's warring stakeholders to conceive of forest management in ways they had previously rejected.
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Forest management, including "raking" brush, which President Trump has previously advocated, would reduce only some of the risk, fire experts have told Axios.
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Trump's offensive, flagged by Axios' Scott Rosenberg and Ben Geman: Threatening California funding for topics ranging from forest management to high-speed rail.
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The state also earmarked $50 million in emergency preparedness funds, and Newsom is trying to speed up forest management and fire prevention efforts.
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And the markets for those paper products encourage forest owners to invest in sustainable forest management practices that keep forests growing and healthy.
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Organized by environmental group PEKA Malaysia, the demonstrators also called for forest management to be moved to central government control from state level.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," he tweeted.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump tweeted.
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"With the federal government being out for 30-plus days, it makes good forest management and good wildfire preparation incredibly difficult," Cottam said.
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Jerry Brown (D) blamed climate change at a press conference Sunday, days after Trump pointed the finger at the state's forest management programs.
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"Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen," Trump tweeted.
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And, he said, it's not easy to weigh how much of the problem can be laid at the feet of forest-management practices.
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While climate change may help explain the severity and speed of the weekend blaze, environmentalists also said it reflected longstanding forest management issues.
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The 2000-year Oromia Forested Landscape Programme (OFLP), which is getting underway this year, is a community-centered program for sustainable forest management.
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Gavin Newsom and claimed that the forest fires in California had been caused, at least in part, by a lack of forest management.
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Young posted online that unlike President Donald Trump's assertion that the wildfires were caused by poor forest management, climate change was actually the culprit.
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When he recently traveling to survey damage from California's wildfires, Zinke echoed Trump claims that lax forest management was to blame in the devastation.
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California plans to spend $1 billion on forest management over the next five years, the letter said, and has spent $111.3 million since 2017.
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Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke called the country's current forest management principles "unsustainable and unacceptable" when speaking to reporters about California's ongoing wildfires on Tuesday.
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Forest management is a complicated industry, but for our purposes what matters is that this part is done in a pretty old-school way.
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New policies are needed to promote science-based, active forest management that is desperately needed on federal lands to protect our forests and communities.
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Republicans in Congress have been trying for years to push for more active forest management, saying there's a concerted effort to block such management.
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And Zinke himself pointed out that the recent massive fires stem from a mix of different issues land use, forest management, and climate change.
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"Nature loves fire at least," I think, considering the calls for forest management to separate the wild-urban interface we've meshed with controlled burns.
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What Trump said There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor.
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Ms. Parker, 37, was a young girl during a fire in 1985 in Ojai, and she later studied wildfire and forest management in college.
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Spring is when vital forest management happens, as crews set prescribed burns and thin forests in order to reduce the fuel for spreading fires.
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Gavin Newsom has come to a realization that Trump is "right" in casting sole blame for California's wildfires on the state's forest management practices.
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This is in large part because they face barriers such as lack of technical expertise, cost of forest management and dwindling markets for wood.
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U.S. President Donald Trump, a Republican, has blamed poor forest management in California for massive blazes in the Golden State, angering its Democratic leaders.
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And even if they had broken out in forests, it would be difficult to lay the responsibility for forest management at the state's feet.
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More specifically, the actions that would sequester the most carbon by far are reforestation (planting trees) and improved forest management of our existing forests.
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The forest service in recent years has spent more than half its budget fighting fires, leaving little leftover for fire prevention and forest management.
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Offsets can entail forest management policies that displace Indigenous communities, and they do nothing to reduce our diesel pollution which disproportionately harms communities of color.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump tweeted on Saturday.
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" She said there are plans for future scenes to show "recreation," such as hiking, "responsible oil and gas development on public lands" and "forest management.
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Scientists and California politicians noted that forest management could not have prevented the major Woolsey Fire last year, which did not start in a forest.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," he tweeted last week.
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The government's proposal is to create a new instrument for combined plots of land, known as Forest Management Entities, which will receive special tax benefits.
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In a series of tweets Saturday, Trump said the state's deadly wildfires are a result of poor forest management and threatened to cut federal aid.
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As a result, Poyry says the country will have to import biomass as well as improve forest management and ensure greater utilization of harvest residues.
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It includes numerous provisions to expedite management of the National Forest System and reduce the amount of litigation that frequently stymies needed forest management projects.
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Their findings on how forests respond to fire will help guide forest management and firefighting policies as a warming climate contributes to more frequent wildfires.
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Bioenergy markets promote active forest management, which helps not only in providing employment opportunities, but also in improving environmental accountability and reducing chances of deforestation.
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The Trump administration has faced backlash over the president's response to the fires, blaming "poor forest management" and threatening to withhold federal funding for California.
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An unfortunate case in point is S. 605, the "Litigation Relief for Forest Management Projects Act," which is set for a hearing later this month.
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Which is why some forest management plans have turned to prescriptive burns which set small, controlled fires that will help mitigate risk down the road.
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Watch: Trump claims his widely mocked comments about how cause of wildfires in CA is poor forest management, not climate change, have been proven correct.
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Trump has repeatedly blamed forest management for the fires in California, and this weekend he dodged questions about what role climate change played in the fires.
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He said the final version of the bill should have allowed for more reforms to better deal with forest management issues and reduce environmental litigation risks.
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On Tuesday, Newsom announced plans to expand the state's emergency preparedness for wildfires, including a five-year, $1 billion forest management plan in his next budget.
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"Billions of dollars are sent to the state of California for forest fires that, with proper forest management, would never happen," the president tweeted last month.
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On Tuesday, the governors of California, Oregon and Washington asked federal agencies to "double" their investment in forest management in a letter to the White House.
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The Zug meeting marks a more recent emphasis on using investment to help the environment in active ways, say through renewable energy or sustainable forest management.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump tweeted in November 2018.
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We're opposed to going in and unnecessarily disrupting the environment and doing forest management practices that will lead to worse fires, and some forest practices do.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," he previously said on Twitter.
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Fire-shooting drones, it turns out, are a good stand-in for risky jobs like clearing powerlines of trash and controlled forest management and agriculture burns.
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Washington (CNN)Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is blaming "radical environmental groups" for a lack of forest management that he says are spreading the deadly California wildfires.
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The result, in 2010, was a forest management agreement between the forest service, the city government and two NGOs, the Nature Conservancy and Lomakatsi Restoration Project.
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Now Congress has the opportunity to pass good policy that saves forests and lives by including House-passed proposals for forest management in the Farm Bill.
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Part of forest management includes reducing the fuel load by scientifically determining which trees need to be removed in order to improve forest health and resiliency.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump tweeted on Nov. 10.
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Washington (CNN)President Donald Trump revived his criticism of California on Wednesday, insisting again the state has mismanaged forest management programs and allowed wildfires to rage.
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It covers crop insurance and the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -- commonly referred to as food stamps -- as well as proposed changes to federal forest management policies.
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This bill has become even more critical as our forest challenges — wildfire, drought, insects, as well as the rising costs of forest management — continue to grow.
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Fire and forest management must be based on sound science and adapt with changing conditions and findings -- rather than clinging to ineffective practices of the past.
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His stated rationale for the cruel threat is his long-disproven claim that wildfires in California are the result of bad forest management by the state.
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Offsets can entail forest management policies that displace Indigenous communities, and they do nothing to reduce our diesel pollution which disproportionately harms communities of color [2541,15].
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It's hard to say how the coronavirus pandemic will look by peak fire season, but it's already interrupting normal preparations such as training and forest management.
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The battle over forest management may come to a climax in the next few years, though — and the tiny black-backed woodpecker could be one reason.
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"Our vision for sustainable forest management and governance could indeed improve the situation for forests worldwide as they are valued more," said Reyer in a statement.
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But our forests are facing growing challenges — wildfire, drought and insects, as well as the growing costs of forest management and the outward spread of development.
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The primary subject of the dispute between Trump and California leaders was not the idea that good forest management can play a role in combating wildfires.
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"Better forest management will help to reduce the damage from wildfires," said Bloomberg, the first presidential candidate to lay out goals to specifically address such fires.
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"National forest management should always be based on public input and sound science," said Mike Anderson, senior policy analyst for the Wilderness Society, an advocacy group.
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Policies aimed at land and forest management practices, like controlled burning or selective thinning, can mitigate risk but require action long before catastrophic fires are ablaze.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Mr. Trump said on Twitter.
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Zinke said it was "unacceptable" to expect the state to deal with wildfires on this order "year after year after year," saying better forest management was needed.
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Trump did visit after the fires — but he's now blaming California for not exercising "proper Forest Management" and threatening to cut off emergency aid to the state.
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"We already have a new ecosystem conservator in North Rift," she added, referring to a senior KFS official brought in to oversee forest management in her region.
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He has railed against the state's forestry practices, blaming poor forest management for record and deadly wildfires, thereby ignoring the roles played by climate change and development.
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Trump also received criticism for casting sole blame on the state's own forest management practices, since the federal government manages more than half of California's forest land.
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As people struggled to evacuate, President Donald Trump in a tweet blamed the fires on poor forest management and repeated the claims before his visit to California.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump wrote on Twitter last weekend.
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Right now Congress is working on the final version of the Farm Bill, which includes forest management provisions in addition to changes to Department of Agriculture programs.
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The 2018 farm bill could help do that, but only if the House and Senate can agree on a final version that will improve active forest management.
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It attacks the Roadless Rule by allowing harmful forest management activities if consistent with local forest plans, even if prohibited by national or state-specific roadless rules.
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USDA office move may have broken law, watchdog says MORE, legislation that would give federal agencies more power to increase logging and take other forest management steps.
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"Radical environmentalists would have you believe forest management means clear cutting forests and national parks," he wrote Wednesday morning in an op-ed published by USA Today.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," he wrote in a Twitter post.
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In response, the environment ministry has overhauled forest management, strengthened the role of guards and imposed steep fines for those who cut, ship or trade logs illegally.
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"He has built one of the strongest track records on championing regulatory relief, forest management, responsible energy development and public land issues," Trump said in a statement.
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Engaging this group of dedicated rural Americans to help with improved forest management and reforestation is a commonsense approach for addressing pressing environmental challenges, including climate change.
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Between the lines: No single factor — not climate change, forest management or building practices — is responsible for the deadly blazes the state is now seeing, experts tell Axios.
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Trump, a Republican who has often criticized Democrat-led California on a variety of issues including immigration enforcement, blamed poor forest management by the state for the infernos.
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"You can't just make a blanket statement," Rice told MSNBC on Monday, adding that fires and forest management were complicated and that weather also was a major factor.
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The big picture: No single factor — not climate change, forest management or building practices — is responsible for the deadly blazes the state is now seeing, experts tell Axios.
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Trump was widely criticized for his claim last year that poor forest management, not climate change, was the only reason California was having a severe problem with wildfires.
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There were certainly some people in California who said he was correct when he repeatedly blasted the state's forest management policies late last year and early this year.
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Trump has at least twice before threatened to withhold disaster funding from California for its wildfires, and argued that the state's forest management has worsened the natural disasters.
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Fire officials and lawmakers in California have vehemently pushed against this assessment, saying forest management is one of a number of issues that could have caused the wildfires.
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A spokesman for Alaska Republican Representative Don Young, who introduced the first bill, said it would alleviate a decline in timber production due to ineffective federal forest management.
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The president drew backlash earlier this month when he blamed poor forest management for making the fire worse, and threatened to cut off federal funding to the state.
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However, the House's proposals in the farm bill would curtail tried and true democratic processes that help ensure national forest management projects are scientifically based and socially acceptable.
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If we don't do this, the federal agencies will have less ability to get ahead of this problem with proactive forest management as the costs of wildfires grow.
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Zinke's plans to visit the state comes days after President Trump tweeted Saturday that California's wildfires were caused by poor forest management and threatened to withhold emergency funding.
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But on Wednesday morning, Trump took to Twitter and threatened to halt FEMA funding unless officials there did proper forest management, including cutting back trees and removing brush.
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More federally managed California land endured wildfires than state-managed land in 2017, and the Trump administration has slashed the budget for agencies that deal with forest management.
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It also expands Good Neighbor Authority, which allows states and local governments to step in to perform forest management tasks on federal land, overcoming a key bureaucratic hurdle.
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Improved forest management would have some mitigating effects on wildfires, given the decades of fire suppression policies that have now left forests loaded with fuel for future fires.
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Trump responded by repeating a claim that poor "forest management" was to blame for the wildfires, adding that he was considering withhold aid until the situation was remedied.
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Last year the Forest Service, which manages nearly 200 million acres of woodlands and grasslands, proposed trimming the amount of environmental review needed for many forest management decisions.
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Walking around the ruins of Paradise, President Donald Trump blamed the tragedy on California's poor forest management, even though the blaze began in an area of federal forest.
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Others, too, blamed politicians who "destroyed the public system of forest management to focus instead on fighting fires," said Felismino Serra, a forest engineer and former professional firefighter.
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Often it involves tree-thinning and the removal of smaller trees -- but there are many different methods of forest management based on the terrain type, among other factors.
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The president threatened to withhold Federal Emergency Management Agency funding for the state in the aftermath of historic wildfires, arguing that officials should first improve forest management practices.
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This week, Trump blamed the severity of the California wildfires on poor forest management on the state level, a program for which he threatened to pull federal funding.
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Related: There's a Fight Brewing Over a Really Important Forest in Canada In Quebec, the Cree Nation is protesting a new forest management agreement struck with the provincial government.
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To date, the FSC has withdrawn its certification from nine companies for breaching its policies on forest management or for working with others that have done so, it said.
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Zinke sponsored a bill known as Litigation Relief for Forest Management, which would have skirted requirements to ensure logging projects on public lands do not unduly harm endangered species.
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Other uses include identifying which types of forest management are most effective in slowing the spread of wildfires or recognizing global changes such as glacier coverage and urban development.
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In a USA Today opinion piece published Wednesday, Zinke said "active forest management" — including logging, prescribed burns and clearing brush — is the way to minimize wildfires on federal land.
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But he argued the growth of devastating wildfires is not such evidence and he expanded on his theory that excessive brush and lax forest management are more to blame.
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"If there is a vulnerability here, it's the people who live in this area who built in the Wildland-Urban Interface and not the forest management itself," McNary said.
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The court concluded certain aspects of the federal agencies' decisions failed to comply with the National Environmental Policy Act, the Mineral Leasing Act and the National Forest Management Act.
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Last July, Greenpeace and the Waswanipi Cree descended on Quebec City to protest a new forest management agreement between the government and the nine bands of James Bay Cree.
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During one particular rant about what he sees as insufficient forest management in California, he went off about so-called "forest nations," although never gave a definition for them.
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"We have to fulfill the protective measures plan and this is what we are doing," Konrad Tomaszewski, a representative of the state forest management agency, told the same news conference.
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Donald Trump had a lot to say about California's forest management in the wake of the states' deadly wildfires — and many officials are saying the president got it completely wrong.
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Factor in human shortcomings — poor or absent forest management, a failure to clear out ignitable dead wood, the darker temptation of arson, unchecked carelessness — and you have a lethal recipe.
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Niinisto told the Ilta-Sanomat newspaper, however, that he isn't sure where Trump got the idea that "raking" is part of Finland's forest management routine, according to The Associated Press.
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And it would take years to deploy any concerted active forest management strategy, during which time populations will grow and temperatures will rise, increasing the risk of another major blaze.
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California is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in programs to restore degraded wetlands and forests and in efforts to reduce the risk of severe wildfires through improved forest management.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump wrote, finding little use for empathy or truth.
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These infrastructure projects allow us to travel over roads and bridges, or through the air, and they allow us to complete essential forest management tasks that can stop destructive wildfires.
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Gavin Newsom called for a five-year, $1 billion forest management plan in his 2019-2020 state budget proposal as part of his commitment to forest health, the USDA said.
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After Trump made his remarks in California, Niinisto told Finnish media that he briefly chatted with the president about forest management — but needless to say, raking did not come up.
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But in drawing attention to forest management, Trump has tapped into a contentious scientific debate: Can the American West's growing problems with wildfire be solved, in part, by thinning overgrown forests?
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Ted Lieu explained that California only owns 2 percent of land in the state, and that Trump was responsible for cutting forest management funding in the federal budget, according to Patch.
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So far, one Norway-funded project has trained 50,000 local people in sustainable forest management, while another has established land-use plans for 82,754 hectares of land, said the REDDX report.
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But Perdue said it could take years for authorities to catch up on forest management, such as thinning out the fuel of dead trees and dry underbrush, and improving emergency roads.
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"Active forest management practices such as thinning, selective cutting, and prescribed burning may be implemented to reduce fire risk and increase forest resilience to droughts and climate change," the paper concludes.
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Trump's remarks came after he was criticized last week for initially blaming California forest management for the destruction wrought by the fires, considered the deadliest and most destructive in California's history.
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After the fires broke out, President Trump tweeted, "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump tweeted.
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"The president's assertion that California's forest management policies are to blame for catastrophic wildfire is dangerously wrong," California Professional Firefighters President Brian Rice said in a Saturday statement, according to ABC.
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The draft Forest Policy seeks to amend a three-decade-old law "by incorporating elements of ecosystem security, climate change mitigation, participatory forest management (and) robust monitoring," the environment ministry said.
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USDA office move may have broken law, watchdog says MORE is a turkey hunter, who has shown strong support for active forest management and a critical repair to forest fire funding.
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During his trip to Paradise this weekend, President Trump continued to blame the state's forest management for the huge wildfires, and recommended following the lead of a forested nation like Finland.
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A crew of scientists at Yellowstone National Park has been studying how forests regrow after fires, and their findings will guide forest management and firefighting policy in the years to come.
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Since taking control of forest management on the Flathead Reservation in 1988, CSKT have earned more than $85033 for every $1 spent compared to the U.S. Forest Service simply breaking even.
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President Trump has repeatedly blamed California's forest management for the huge wildfires burning there, one of which has left at least 76 dead and become the most destructive in state history.
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The potential of second-growth forests to sequester carbon could provide a solution for countries in Latin America to meet both their climate change and forest management goals, the study said.
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Scientists and California officials have also noted that forest management could not have prevented several of the major fires of the last two years, since they did not start in forests.
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" Bishop said the mission of the ESA "has changed and has been misused to try and control land, to block a host of economic activities, jobs, energy, infrastructure and forest management.
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The choice governments and loggers make now is fundamental: People can continue to exploit Afrormosia as we are and drive it to extinction, or, through sustainable forest management, ensure its survival.
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Trump's visit will come more than a week after the Woolsey, Hill, and Camp fires broke out and after he sent an inaccurate tweet blaming the state's forest management for the fires.
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"The investment will enable Finite Carbon to grow a new line of business to incentivize sustainable forest management, financed by businesses seeking to voluntarily offset carbon emissions," BP said in a release.
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The backdrop: High latitude forests have seen increased wildfires in recent decades, particularly in parts of Canada, Alaska and Russia, though forest management practices and human settlement patterns also play a role.
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The President's plans for the visit, only his second as president, come after he initially criticized California forest management last weekend, shortly after the fires started, threatening to withhold federal emergency funds.
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Last week, the president was blasted for a tweet blaming the fires on the state's "forest management," which he assessed as "poor," accompanied by his threat to withdraw federal funds (The Hill).
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Trump acknowledged in a "Fox News Sunday" interview that aired on Sunday that climate change may contribute "a little bit" to the fires, but insisted that forest management plays a larger role.
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USDA office move may have broken law, watchdog says MORE were in California on Monday to meet with officials, firefighters, fire survivors and others, and promote the administration's active forest management agenda.
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The US Forest Service has had to borrow money from its own forest management programs to fight fires, so timber sales in federal forests could help fund further fire risk reduction programs.
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California, for example, is investing hundreds of millions of dollars in programs to restore degraded wetlands and forests and in efforts to reduce the risk of severe wildfires through improved forest management.
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Warming can make wildfires worse, for example — it makes vegetation drier and more combustible — but forest management practices, as well as decisions about where to build, also affect the degree of devastation.
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Researchers point to hotter and drier weather conditions, longer fire seasons, a lack of active national forest management, underfunding of the U.S. Forest Service's forest health and restoration programs and legal battles.
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Scientists point to multiple factors for causing this transition, from climate change, which is increasing temperatures and drying out vegetation faster and more significantly, as well as population growth and forest management policies.
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"There are many ways of taking these metrics but none with this level of resolution," said Felipe Carazo, the executive director of Fundecor, a non-governmental organization that works on sustainable forest management.
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Under Malaysia's constitution, forest management largely falls under state not federal control, and this has often led to economic interests being prioritized over the environment and rights of indigenous people, Syed Akil said.
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U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said forest management practices need to be sped up, and he hoped that U.S. agencies could get more authority to do so under a farm bill being debated.
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USDA office move may have broken law, watchdog says MORE were in California on Monday to promote more aggressive forest management as a solution for the fierce, deadly wildfires in the Golden State.
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Trump drew criticism for initially threatening to withhold federal funding from the state if it did not change its forest management strategies, but later provided full aid and pledged to assist recovery efforts.
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The ongoing drought, warm temperatures, insect infestations, poor forest management, continued residential and commercial expansion in the wildland-urban interface and other factors have made the western United States more prone to fire.
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During his speech at the scene, Trump — who has drawn fire for his past criticisms of the state's forest management system — suggested California look to Finland as an example of how to operate.
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In that pursuit, he received an assist from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack, who as overseer of the Forest Service predicted disaster if Congress failed to allocate much more money for preventive forest management.
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Scientists and California politicians noted that forest management could not have prevented the fires linked to PG&E equipment or the Woolsey Fire last year, which also did not start in a forest.
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We need to be sure that we are continuing to be prepared to meet the threat while at the same time we are continuing to invest in fire prevention and forest management projects.
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They also point out that forest management in California is largely a federal responsibility; around 60 percent of the 33 million acres of forests in the state is owned by the federal government.
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Last week, as anger swelled in California over the president's comments blaming forest management, Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House majority leader, called Mr. Trump and described the severity of the fires.
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In recent years the Forest Service has tried to rectify its past forest-management practices by conducting more prescribed or "controlled" burns to get rid of dead vegetation that could fuel future wildfires.
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It can help pay for good forest management on public land Forests in the West have become tinderboxes, in part thanks to climate change and in part thanks to years of poor management.
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"The farm bill is a perfect vehicle to enact strong forest management reforms that will help reduce the risk of severe wildfire and minimize tragedies from happening again," he said in a statement.
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Visiting the devastation in Paradise last week, Trump told rescue workers that poor forest management was to blame, and that Finland's President Sauli Niinisto told him that "raking" was the key to prevention.
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Instead, it's lasting all year long, a trend that has been occurring with increasing regularity in Western states due to a combination of climate change, land development and forest management practices, among other factors.
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Wheeler has served as acting administrator of the EPA since July, and came under scrutiny during his confirmation hearing for attributing increased wildfires in California to forest management, rather than climate change-induced drought.
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And while the net loss of forest land is slowing, indigenous communities continue to feel the impact of deforestation directly, as their traditional forest management, hunting, gathering, and settlement patterns are disrupted or destroyed.
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Iris Automation's goal is to create a fully autonomous, self-piloted drone that could help perform jobs like mining exploration, pipeline construction, agricultural surveys, package deliveries, forest management, search and rescue, and other activities.
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A Polish state forest management agency said in Warsaw on Monday it would continue with the "protective" logging of Bialowieza despite the ruling by the European Union's top court ordering it to stop immediately.
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He faced criticism this month over his initial response to the wildfires, which included blaming local officials for the wildfires due to poor "forest management" and threatening to withhold federal funding for the state.
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More action is needed to give the Forest Service the tools they need to better manage our forests by expediting and protecting collaborative forest management from activist litigation that delay meaningful, publicly supported projects.
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The United States could set up programs to start testing and deploying carbon removal methods that look ready to go, such as negative emissions biomass plants, new forest management techniques or carbon farming programs.
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Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke said on Tuesday that the deadliest wildfires in California's history were partly due to lawsuits from environmentalists who have sought to stop forest management practices, such as forest thinning.
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Mr. Trump repeated his view on Saturday that forest management — the partial clearing and cleaning of brush from forests — was partly to blame for the string of immense and deadly wildfires in recent years.
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Laws governing forest management and land acquisition do not offer adequate protection for the poor, leaving them vulnerable to violence while defending their homes and land, said Pranom Somwong at Protection International in Thailand.
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The legislation would make it easier for officials to prepare federal forests for potential fires by easing regulations governing forest management activities like controlled burns and clearing away brush that acts as wildfire fuel.
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However, recent recommendations to curtail tried and true democratic processes for environmental and judicial review when it comes to national forest management are as unwise as the House and Senate legislation currently being discussed.
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For the second year in a row, the Trump White House proposed eliminating the Joint Fire Science Program, a research initiative across six agencies, including the Interior Department, to improve forest management and help firefighters.
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Trump is right that these fires are exacerbated by humans, though he's wrong about who or what is to blame: Wildfires are getting worse because of human activity, but not because of California's forest management.
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Tanzania's Village Land Act of 1999 empowers village councils to make decisions on land use and this ties in with Farm Africa's aim to forge joint partnerships between villagers and local authorities on forest management.
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Those events are followed by drought and heavy rainfall, which is influenced by increased atmospheric moisture caused by climate change, but wildfires could arise from such factors as forest management and climate variables, it added.
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Zinke and others in the Trump administration, though, have focused heavily on the argument that the historic wildfires — including the largest fire in California's recorded history — are due to a lack of "active" forest management.
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Last week U.S. Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said forest management practices need to be sped up, and he hoped that U.S. agencies could get more authority to do so under a farm bill being debated.
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The visit will come a week after he blamed state officials for the destructive blazes, erroneously attributing the cause of the fires to poor forest management and threatening to withhold financial payments to the state.
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We owe it to our public lands and our communities to reconsider our land-management policies and acknowledge that improved forest management is essential in maintaining healthy forests and creating a safe wildland-urban interface.
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And what's more, supporting family forest owners in good forest management also produces other co-benefits such as supporting rural communities with income and jobs, and sustaining and improving vital habitat and clean water infrastructure.
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"The difficulty with maintaining the paper trail is that it's easy... to counterfeit," said Guillery, who is supply chain integrity director at the Forest Stewardship Council (FSC), a non-profit that promotes responsible forest management.
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Trump, in a spate of postings on Twitter, lambasted what he called Newsom's "terrible job" regarding the state's forest management practices, saying the governor should stop listening to environmentalist "bosses" and "clean" the forest floors.
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The bank said it aims to support developing nations in adding 30 gigawatts of renewable energy by 2020, enough to power 150 million homes, and will design sustainable forest management strategies for more than 50 countries.
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Go deeper: Full coverage: Axios on the California wildfires This week's Axios Science focused on wildfires Why it's so hard to issue a fire warning Forest management is only one risk factor in the California wildfires
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump tweeted on Saturday as he was in France for the commemoration of Armistice Day.
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"Conservationists" in Sacramento have argued against effective forest management programs meant to curb the massive, quick-spreading California wildfires that have led to huge damage in the past several years and pleas for federal disaster relief.
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"I like to think we're setting a bar for climate-resilient forest management that can generate a return, that investors can find attractive and that others will seek to emulate," Kaiser told the Thomson Reuters Foundation.
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To the Editor: A reasonable not to mention sensitive man would express support and sympathy for California in the midst of its latest calamitous wildfires, and only after the danger had passed question its forest management.
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And, according to the new National Academies report, of the four CDR technologies that are ready for deployment, three involve the natural carbon cycle: planting new forests, improving forest management, and storing carbon in agricultural soils.
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Image: Hennius, 2018/AntiquityBuilding, operating, and maintaining the larger pits in the forest required considerable work, said Hennius, involving such tasks as forest management, the cutting down of trees, chipping and stacking wood, and monitoring the firing.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. Interior Department Secretary Ryan Zinke said on Tuesday that the deadliest wildfires in California's history were partly due to lawsuits from environmentalists who have sought to stop forest management practices, such as forest thinning.
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"Radical environmental groups that would rather burn down the entire forest than cut a single tree or thin the forest," have brought lawsuits to stop forest management, Zinke told reporters in a teleconference about the California wildfires.
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"The trend is declining, and as long as we have good winters and continue to increase the pace and scale on active [forest] management, I would expect our tree mortality numbers to continue to decline," Smith said.
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The controversial measures include new exemptions from environmental review for many forest-thinning practices, reducing barriers to removing wood after fires and making it easier to build roads through federal land in the name of forest management.
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The controversial measures include new exemptions from environmental review for many forest thinning practices, reducing barriers to removing wood after fires and making it easier to build roads through federal land in the name of forest management.
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"Alls you have to do is talk to the [firefighters]," Zinke said, claiming they would cite forest management as their biggest problem and not climate change, which is prolonging the season and making extreme blazes more likely.
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Local officials and fire experts have criticized Trump for ignoring the impact that climate change is having on the length and severity of fires — and denying climate change science — while giving too much credit to forest management.
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Forest fires In the wake of the deadly fires that have ravaged California, the House will take up legislation this week to address the federal response to forest fires, and change how forest management programs are funded.
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According to Farm Africa, an organization involved in forest management in Ethiopia, less than four percent of the country's land is now forested, a sharp decline from around 30 percent at the end of the 19th century.
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"The president's attempt to pin sole blame for California's wildfire problems on the state's forest management is flat wrong," said Brian Rice, president of the California Professional Firefighters — a union representing about 30,000 local, state and federal firefighters.
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"Billions of dollars are sent to the State of California for Forest fires that, with proper Forest Management, would never happen," Trump wrote on Twitter, a day after Western governors asked for greater federal investment in wildfire prevention.
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John O'Reilly, the boss of Green Belt, a forest-management company, worries that Ireland's afforestation rate might dip below 6,000 hectares a year in the next few years—a level that he views as necessary for sustaining business.
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"For years we've had plans that these trees would be harvested," Anthony Davis, the interim dean of the university's College of Forestry, told CNN, referring to a forest management plan that the school has been using since 2005.
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Trump has at least twice before threatened to withhold disaster funding from California for its wildfires and pressed the state to fix what he sees as major flaws with its forest management practices that cause or exacerbate fires.
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In his KCRA interview, Zinke accepted the conclusion from that report and others that climate change is making wildfires worse, but he said better forest management — such as removing more trees and brush — is essential to reducing risks.
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Trump has at least twice before threatened to withhold disaster funding from California for its wildfires and pressed the state to fix what he sees as major flaws with its forest management practices that cause or exacerbate fires.
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The Protect Collaboration for Healthier Forests Act would allow forest management projects being legally disputed to use a pilot program offering binding arbitration as an alternative — instead of lengthy litigation that can often take multiple years to resolve.
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But the conservation drive has been used as a pretext for abuse by some agents from forest management agency SODEFOR, claim victims, who say their illegal status in the protected forests means they have little hope of redress.
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And though Portuguese fire experts said on Sunday that it was difficult to say for sure how the fires had spread so rapidly, environmentalists warned that the country needed to urgently improve its forest management and fire monitoring.
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Local officials and fire experts, meanwhile, have criticized Trump for ignoring the impact that climate change is having on the length and severity of fires -- and denying climate change science -- while giving too much credit to forest management.
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Yet almost all of the legislation that has emerged from the panel under Bishop has drawn a veto threat from President Obama, including bills on national forest management, the California drought and energy extraction on American Indian land.
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The legislation would also exempt the Forest Service from analyzing cumulative environmental effects of multiple categorical exclusions projects in the same vicinity, violating fundamental ecological principles of sound public forest management on issues of scale, context and need.
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But the right-wing One American News Network has been running a segment all morning claiming that "Experts say these disastrous fires can continue in places like California due to the state's dry weather and forest management." pic.twitter.
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Go deeper: Scorched and smothered by wildfires, California's 13 months of hell Full coverage: Axios on the California wildfires Why it's so hard to issue a fire warning Forest management is only one risk factor in the California wildfires
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Go deeper: Scorched and smothered by wildfires, California's 13 months of hell Full coverage: Axios on the California wildfires Why it's so hard to issue a fire warning Forest management is only one risk factor in the California wildfires
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Its custom UAV platforms, equipped with multispectral camera arrays, high-end lidar, six-gallon tanks of herbicide and proprietary seed dispersal mechanisms have been hired by several major forest management companies, with government entities eyeing the service as well.
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Meanwhile, non-defense programs - ranging from border patrol to civil rights enforcement, forest management, space exploration and health programs - would rise from the current $605 billion this year to $632 billion next year and $634.5 billion the following year.
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As Californians were fleeing the huge wildfires that have left both ends of the state ablaze, President Trump took to Twitter over the weekend, blaming the infernos on forest management and threatening to withhold federal payments from the state.
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And proactive forest management to reduce the spread and severity of wildfires violates the climate catechism: Sin is left unpunished and the need for atonement, in the form of carbon fasting and purging, is deferred, if not obviated altogether.
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"Such 'categorical exclusions' prevent public involvement in national forest management, eliminate a thorough review of the effects of government actions, and erode public confidence in public land management," a green coalition wrote to lead Senate negotiators last month. Sen.
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" Continued Purdue, "While we would have liked to see more progress on work requirements for SNAP recipients and forest management reforms, the conference agreement does include several helpful provisions and we will continue to build upon these through our authorities.
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Trump and Newsom have traded insults on occasion, and the president has previously threatened to take federal money away from California for so-called "sanctuary" policies protecting undocumented immigrants as well as over wildfires the president blames on "poor" forest management.
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BRUSSELS (Reuters) - EU environment ministers agreed national emissions-reduction targets and forest management rules on Friday in a push to show the bloc is delivering on its climate goals ahead of United Nations talks next month to fight global warming.
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"While I feel there were missed opportunities in forest management and in improving work requirements for certain SNAP recipients, this bill does include several helpful provisions," Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue said in a statement, referring to the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.
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" Pointing out that the state of California should hardly be blamed when the majority of forests are not under their control, he added, "it is is the federal government that has chosen to divert resources away from forest management, not California.
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In the "high desert" environment of Harney County – and throughout the West – federal, state and private landowners use controlled or prescribed burns for prairie restoration, forest management and to reduce the buildup of underbrush that could fuel much bigger fires.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump tweeted last week, threatening to withhold federal funds even as firefighters in the state grappled with the blazes.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump tweeted late Friday, threatening to withhold federal funds even as firefighters in the state grappled with the blazes.
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Mr. Young was pointed in writing about his loss, reportedly the second of his homes to be claimed by a California fire, taking President Trump to task for his misleading claim that poor forest management was to blame for the fires.
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"There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," he wrote on Twitter last weekend, as firefighters were still battling back flames on both ends of the state.
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President Donald Trump brought up on Tuesday the deadly wildfires that ravaged California last year and said, "we are finally starting to see some progress on better forest management," during a speech in Iowa that was purportedly about renewable energy.
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"The current system for allocating costs associated with catastrophic wildfires - often caused by utility infrastructure, but exacerbated by drought, climate change, land-use policies and a lack of forest management - is untenable both for utility customers and for our economy," the report said.
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Why it matters: President Trump has repeatedly pointed to "poor" forest management from the state of California as a cause of the fires, and has threatened to pull federal funding, despite scientific experts citing climate change as a major factor of the fires.
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Other effects of warming temperatures, such as increased risks of drought and wildfire, might either help or harm beetle in certain areas, while forest management approaches like tree-thinning or selective planting of beetle-resistant trees could take the edge off the advance.
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Marta told us stories of the dendro-archeological work she's done on shipwrecks: by tree-ring dating the wood recovered from shipwrecks, information can be inferred about the provenance of the wood, timber procurement for shipbuilding, past forest management practices, and woodworking techniques.
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One new project, led by the U.N. Food and Agriculture Organization and the Paraguay government, will support a shift to sustainable forest management to reduce tree loss and improve quality of life for some 17,000 families, many of them indigenous, in eastern Paraguay.
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Randi Spivak, lands director for the Center of Biological Diversity, an environmental group that has sued the government over forest practices, said there have been just 38 lawsuits over the federal government's 576 forest management decisions involving California from 2009 to 2017.
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"It's going to take working together from the community all the way up to federal government and making sure that we do active forest management, we prioritize infrastructure, public safety, the roads, evacuation, and work together as a team," Zinke said Thursday.
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Trump previously blamed the state's water management policies for wildfires, and over the weekend attracted widespread criticism when he blamed poor forest management for the latest round of wildfires that have displaced tens of thousands of residents and scorched thousands of homes.
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" Pelosi, who represents San Francisco, also blasted the President for tweeting Wednesday that he ordered FEMA to withhold funds to California in the aftermath of the wildfires unless the state "get(s) their act together" and conducts what he called "proper Forest Management.
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Trump previously blamed the state's water management policies for wildfires, and over the weekend attracted widespread criticism when he blamed poor forest management for the latest round of wildfires that have displaced tens of thousands of residents and scorched thousands of homes.
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The secret to the Finns' forest management system lies instead in its early warning system, aerial surveillance system and network of forest roads, said Professor Henrik Lindberg, a forest fires researcher at the Häme University of Applied Sciences, a college in southern Finland.
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Jerry Brown cited multiple factors, including climate, as reasons for his state's predicament, according to the L.A. Times: Go deeper: Axios Science: Wildfire edition Scorched and smothered by wildfires, California's 13 months of hell Forest management is only one risk factor in the California wildfires
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Here's a projection with those uncertainties represented: As you can see, with current policies if the US gets some lucky breaks (good forest management, cheap renewable energy) or some, uh, unlucky breaks (lower-than-expected economic growth) it could conceivably hit its 2020 target.
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Putting an end to fire borrowing will allow the Forest Service to use its fire prevention funds for their intended purpose: clearing hazardous fuels in our forests and completing other forest management activities, such as processing environmental reviews for areas impacted by insects and disease.
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That would have a commensurate impact on the climate; it would also be grim for America, whose long disdain for one of its greatest bounties, the forests on which its economy was built, is belatedly yielding to smarter, more collaborative sorts of forest management.
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The farm bill is a colossal piece of legislation that sets the eating and farming policy of the United States, including crop insurance, the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program -- colloquially referred to as SNAP or food stamps -- and proposed changes to federal forest management policies.
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Trump has stood by his years-old claim that climate change is a hoax and emphasized that belief with his statements about the California wildfires, which he said were a result of poor forest management, drawing criticism from firefighters, climate scientists and many others.
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"Forest management has nothing to do with mountain winds coming down the passes at 70 miles per hour, or humidity levels in one hour dropping Thursday from 35 percent down into single digits, dryer than most deserts," CNN meteorologist Tom Sater explained on Sunday.
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"Forest Service spending on fire suppression in recent years has gone from 15 percent of the budget to 55 percent – or maybe even more – which means we have to keep borrowing from funds that are intended for forest management," Perdue said in a written statement.
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Fire officials said the Woolsey Fire had little to do with forest management because it occurred mostly in dry brush, chaparral and oak woodlands, and the Paradise Fire began in an area consisting primarily of private timber and scrub not managed by the government.
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"The options with medium to large benefits for all challenges are increased food productivity, improved cropland management, improved grazing land management, improved livestock management, agroforestry, improved forest management, increased soil organic carbon content, fire management, and reduced post-harvest losses," according to the report.
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One way to respond to a challenge from the United Nations secretary general, António Guterres, to seek "bold action and much greater ambition" on climate change is to protect forests from development, improve forest management and use sustainably harvested wood to build tall buildings.
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A century of badly informed forest management decisions in the Western states is partly to blame for the escalating number of intense fires, but the U.S. Forest Service says it's struggling to implement the one measure that can make up for past mistakes: controlled forest burning.
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SACRAMENTO/WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. President Donald Trump lashed out once more at California on Wednesday for a series of devastating wildfires he blames on poor forest management, threatening to withhold federal disaster aid in a Twitter blast that drew rebukes from lawmakers in his own party.
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The Pasadena Firefighters Association responded to the president on Sunday, stating the fires have "nothing to do with forest management": Mr. President, we welcome you to come to CA, assist the victims and talk to professional #firefighers about the #CaliforniaFires and what you can do to help.
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The fire started July 12 when lightning struck a snag and began burning — the same area scarred by the 1987 Silver Fire and 2002 Biscuit Fire in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness, a congressionally designated wilderness area where forest management activities such as mechanized thinning are strictly prohibited.
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I'm less clear, say, that we should attribute events like the devastating forest fires to climate change alone as opposed to a host of additional causes, including too many people living in fire-prone areas (and often causing the fires), as well as poor forest-management practices.
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At various points during his presidency, Trump has criticized California's immigration laws, forest management practices, and residents of the state for not being more grateful about the border fencing he's building there — including as recently as the rally he held in New Mexico earlier this week.
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READ: Kim Kardashian prays for other wildfire evacuees from her escape aircraft with a view Trump has repeatedly claimed that poor forest management is to blame for the wildfires still burning across the Golden State, ignoring claims that climate change is behind the record-breaking fires.
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He has been outspoken about forest management since the fire broke out, telling Fox News' Chris Wallace in an interview set to air on Fox News Sunday that while climate change "maybe contributes a bit," the "big problem" has been neglect from forest officials failing to rake leaves.
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The former Montana congressman is poised to push the benefits of what's known as forest management at an event with Agriculture Secretary Sonny PerdueGeorge (Sonny) Ervin PerdueUSDA eases relocation timeline as researchers flee agency The Hill's Morning Report - How will Trump be received in Dayton and El Paso?
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He accused election officials of rigging the vote in two US Senate races, repeated his claim that he does not personally know the man he tapped to become the acting attorney general and threatened to cut federal aid while blaming the deadly wildfires in California on "poor" forest management.
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And President Trump has threatened to cut off Federal Emergency Management Agency relief funds for fire victims, blaming the state's forest management for the fires, even though most forest land in the state is maintained by the federal government and more federal acres burned in last year's fires.
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The scenario they analyzed found that, with appropriate forest management and site rotation, the annual growth of trees would offset emissions and result in carbon savings of 115 percent lower than natural gas-based electricity in the first year of operation and 98 percent lower over 100 years.
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Steve DainesSteven (Steve) David DainesThe 23 Republicans who opposed Trump-backed budget deal 5 takeaways from combative Democratic debate GOP senator introduces resolution to formally condemn socialism MORE (R-Mont.) welcomed the new push from the administration, saying better forest management can put a significant dent in fires.
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It placed a high priority on transferring energy generation from fossil fuels (carbon removed from the atmosphere before humans evolved and buried ever since deep underground) to sources in the present-day ecosystem including forest-derived biomass (brush, trimmings and other byproducts of scientific and complex sustainable forest management practices).
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USDA office move may have broken law, watchdog says MORE told reporters Tuesday that the fires, which have killed more than 80 people so far, should spur lawmakers to adopt more "active forest management" policies -- a term that refers to increased logging, removing brush, conducting planned burns and other activities.
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Improved forest management, for example, entails "a wide variety of practices affecting the growth of trees and the biomass removed, including improved regeneration (natural or artificial) and a better schedule, intensity and execution of operations (thinning, selective logging, final cut; reduced impact logging, etc.)," according to the report (emphasis added).
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Ken DerowSwarthmore, Pa. To the Editor: President Trump's assertion that "there is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor" is a pathetic example of the man's inability to see beyond his own imagined, self-serving version of truth.
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USDA office move may have broken law, watchdog says MORE told reporters Tuesday that the fires, which have killed more than 80 people so far, should spur lawmakers to adopt more "active forest management" policies — a term that refers to increased logging, removing brush, conducting planned burns and other activities.
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Since the late 1990's, more deadly wildfires have swept the western US, due in part to climate change, in part to forest management practices, in part to a struggling utility company, and in part to development along the wildland-urban interface—meaning more people live in fire-prone places.
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Read more: People In California Are Getting Creative As Thick Smoke From The Wildfires Chokes Entire Regions —Blake Montgomery President Trump spoke to Fox News ahead of his Saturday trip to the scene of a catastrophic Northern California wildfire, marveling at the number of victims and blaming state officials for poor forest management.
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California Gov Jerry Brown, scientists, and firefighters have said extreme hot, dry weather over years has made the state ripe for wildfires; in response, experts have said the state will need to change how and where homes are built in fire-prone areas, improve evacuation plans, and also do more forest management.
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In the statement, Zinke echoed President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE in saying the wildfires could be mainly attributed to improper forest management.
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The House's version included multiple controversial provisions, such as expanding opportunities for loggers to remove trees after fires, doubling the size of areas that could be exempt from environmental review for logging, loosening rules protecting imperiled species from forest management practices and letting some roads get built in areas that were previously protected.
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In papers filed in U.S. District Court in San Francisco on Tuesday, the conservation group asked for an injunction on sales of horses until the court resolves its lawsuit claiming the government's decision to sell captured horses without limitations on their use violates the National Environmental Policy Act and National Forest Management Act.
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" The community consultations that environmental statutes require, the secretary noted, actually help the Forest Service do its job: "The best job we do within the community of getting community buy-in with all the people in the community the better job we're going to get done with working our forest management plans.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE has pledged federal assistance to the state over the fires, while rebuking state leaders over alleged failures in forest management.
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Along with many partners in the nonprofit and private sectors of sportsmen's conservation and numerous legislators who are already diligently working in concert on these issues, I urge Congress to act — to implement long-needed changes to laws regulating national forest management and end the erosion of the Forest Service's budget for proactive forest work.
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Here's what President Donald Trump had to say in reaction to the devastating fire that has burned more than 100,000 acres and put over a quarter of a million people under evacuation orders: "There is no reason for these massive, deadly and costly forest fires in California except that forest management is so poor," Trump tweeted this morning.
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Steve DainesSteven (Steve) David DainesThe 23 Republicans who opposed Trump-backed budget deal 5 takeaways from combative Democratic debate GOP senator introduces resolution to formally condemn socialism MORE (R-Mont.), a proponent of forest management — a term often used to reference logging — also said he thought California needed the funding but agreed with Trump that something must be done.
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In the most comprehensive scientific analysis conducted on the issue of forest management and fire intensity -- which looked at more than 1,500 fires on tens of millions of acres across the Western United States over three decades -- we found that forests with the fewest environmental protections and the most logging actually tend to burn much more intensely, not less.
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The plan lists jobs in: The plan calls for a new version of the the Civilian Conservation Corps, a Franklin D. Roosevelt-era public works program that put young unemployed men in the Great Depression to work doing forest management, flood control, conservation projects, and the development of state and national parks, forests, and historic sites.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE said Wednesday that he has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to withhold funding for California unless the state improves its forest management to prevent wildfires.
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Zinke's plans to visit the state comes days after President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE tweeted Saturday that California's wildfires were caused by poor forest management and threatened to withhold emergency funding.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE visited the damaged areas over the weekend, after initially blaming California's forest management for the fires and threatening to withhold federal funding to the state.
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Humans are a wildfire threat multiplier (Axios) Why it's so hard to issue a fire warning (Axios) Forest management is only one risk factor in the California wildfires (Axios) Americans Are Moving Closer to Nature, and to Fire Danger (NY Times) Air-fouling smoke continues across California; 2009 report warned of potential fire disaster (Wunderground) Floods 'on steroids' could bring new dangers to wildfire areas.
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President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE on Sunday doubled down on his claim that deadly forest fires ravaging California are partly attributable to poor "forest management," despite widespread criticism for similar comments a day earlier.
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Bipartisan support for emergency assistance to the state is at odds with President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE's recent remarks that he'd consider pulling federal disaster assistance to California, saying the state has poor forest management.
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The president of the Pasadena Firefighters Association blasted President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE over his comments that blamed poor "forest management" for the devastating wildfires in California.
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Finnish President Sauli Niinisto reportedly said Sunday that he briefed President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE on forest management earlier this month while the two discussed wildfires in California.
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The delay in fire season preparation comes as President TrumpDonald John TrumpFacebook releases audit on conservative bias claims Harry Reid: 'Decriminalizing border crossings is not something that should be at the top of the list' Recessions happen when presidents overlook key problems MORE has pushed the Interior and Agriculture departments to engage in more "forest management" to prevent the scale of fires seen in California over the past few years.
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John ShimkusJohn Mondy ShimkusRepublicans eye legislation to rival Democrats' sweeping climate plan Overnight Energy: House passes sweeping bill on 'forever chemicals' | Green groups question Pentagon about burning of toxic chemicals | Steyer plan would open US to climate refugees House passes sweeping bill to target spread of toxic 'forever chemicals' MORE (R-Ill.) also pointed to the 12 bills packaged together by Republicans, which aim to boost nuclear energy, promote carbon capture and improve forest management.
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It provides a very long list of recommended projects, which include: computer kiosks in villages; cell phones for rent in rural areas; scholarships targeted toward girls who go to secondary school: schooling voucher programmes for poor children; joint forest management programmes; water users' groups: citizen report cards for public services; participatory poverty assessments; internet access for tiny firms; land titling; legal reform; micro-credit based on group lending; and many, many, others.
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TRUMP THREATENS CALIFORNIA FEMA FUNDING: President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE said Wednesday morning that he has ordered the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) to withhold funding for California unless the state improves its forest management to prevent wildfires.
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Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE blamed "environmental radicals" for the California wildfires that have killed at least 77 people, saying they stop forest management practices that could have prevented the fires.
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Interior Secretary Ryan ZinkeRyan Keith ZinkeNew policy at Interior's in-house watchdog clamps down on interactions with press Overnight Energy: EPA proposes scrapping limits on coal plant waste | Appointee overseeing federal lands once advocated selling them | EPA lifts Obama-era block on controversial mine Latest appointee overseeing federal public lands once advocated to sell them MORE on Monday again called for Congress to enact more aggressive forest management policies included in the House-passed farm bill, saying they could save forests and lives and create jobs in the logging industry.
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Rep. Eric SwalwellEric Michael SwalwellHickenlooper ends presidential bid Scenes from Iowa State Fair: Surging Warren, Harris draw big crowds Nadler hits gas on impeachment MORE (D-Calif.) on Monday said President TrumpDonald John TrumpTrump pushes back on recent polling data, says internal numbers are 'strongest we've had so far' Illinois state lawmaker apologizes for photos depicting mock assassination of Trump Scaramucci assembling team of former Cabinet members to speak out against Trump MORE "owns a lot of the problem" on forest management, noting the federal government oversees more than half of the forests in California.
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