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November 30, 2018

Zinke Promotes Logging While Visiting Wildfire-Devastated Area
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This comes as Interior Secretary Ryan Zinke is being accused of using
the deadly Camp Fire to advance provisions in a new farm bill. The bill
seeks to make logging in federal forests easier by fast-tracking forest
management projects and removing the environmental review process. While
visiting Paradise this week, Zinke suggested that thinning forests could
help prevent wildfires. But recent studies have found that logged
forests with low environmental protections experience more destructive
wildfires.


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