Millions of acres of national forest are targeted for logging under an emergency order from the Trump administration
Millions of acres of national forest are targeted for logging under an emergency order from the Trump administration
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Does anyone know if this will affect Yellowstone national park? I've always wanted to go there and Imma be extra pissed if he destroys that reserve.
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National Forests and National Parks are different things and are managed by different departments.
National Parks (like Yellowstone) are managed by the National Parks Service and we're put aside for conservation and public access. They are protected in perpetuity. As much of a shit head Trump is and as terrible as the Republicans are, I don't think they could actually open these up.
Meanwhile, National Forests are managed by the Department of Agriculture. They were specifically put aside to be public land and to protect the US lumber industry. The rules have been slowly opened up to allow private purchase (for individuals and ranches) and different types of resource gathering (mostly fishing and ore mining, with some oil mining).
I think a lot of people in this thread are mixing up the two as well. National Forests are specifically used for resource gathering and more resource gathering isn't out of the ordinary for these parks.
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Ok I didn't know that, thank you for the education.
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the map shows the northwest will be more concern, all that redwood forests,
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I'm worried about the Redwoods too, but for some reason I was thinking Yellowstone was in Washington State, now I feel dumb.
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Yellowstone is due to destroy itself any day now. It is an active supervolcano.
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In geologic scale? That is true. In human scale? It is extremely unlikely in thousands of years.
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On the other hand. This has been said for decades.
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Not even, there was a discovery channel documentary a number of years ago and it's been constant hype and bullshit about a made-up crisis ever since. If you're still taking TLC and discovery channel programming as science at this point, you're unsavable.
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Hey! I learned a lot about Mermaids from those documentaries. You cant find that kind of fact-based research in the Mainstream Media. Liberals hate Mermaids, and they aren't real big on Unicorns, either.
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If you're still taking TLC and discovery channel programming as science at this point, you're unsavable.
Supervolcano was co-produced by the BBC
The reason for the interest was
The upward movement of the Yellowstone caldera floor between 2004 and 2008—almost 75 millimetres (3.0 in) each year—was more than three times greater than ever observed since such measurements began in 1923
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That's still 2005, not "decades" ago, and it's still a hype piece that's been capitalized on by every other network because fear sells, excitement sells, disaster movies sell.
No serious geologist believes that there's going to be a Yellowstone supervolcano, maybe ever because shit don't necessarily work that way. The magma chamber is almost 80% solidified, and we're talking 10,000 kilometers of rock. The worst case, we will see pressure vents forming and spewing ash, but likely not even THAT in our lifetime.
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2005, not "decades" ago
I hate to break it to you, but 2005 is decades ago. Two to be precise.
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Nuh
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Yellowstone is due to destroy itself any day now.
You are stupid.
It's okay, I don't mean that as an attack. I mean it as a challenge. Educate yourself and read actual science.
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You are an asshole.
Good thing I don't have to tolerate you. Goodbye.
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You have a fantastic moderation history, I'm legit honored to have someone like you tell me "goodbye" it means I'm doing something right.
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