Despite Promise, Biden BLM Keeps OKing Plans To Cut Down Old Forests

"Earth Day Promise: In 2022, President Joe Biden announced a new effort to protect old forests, which are key to the fight against climate change. But it hasn’t made much of a difference.

Logging Continues: The Bureau of Land Management has allowed timber companies to cut these forests at a faster pace since Biden's executive order than in the decade that preceded it.

Legal Battles: Conservation groups keep suing over what they claim are rushed timber sales, and they keep winning — but under a Trump administration, they may be unable to keep up."

April Ehrlich and Tony Schick report for Oregon Public Broadcasting, and McKenzie Funk for ProPublica, November 12, 2024.