Biden moves to ban most old-growth logging in national forests
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Biden moves to ban most old-growth logging in national forests
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The Forest Service is planning to put more protections in place for the very oldest trees, which dot nearly 25 million acres of land the agency manages and are vital for storing carbon dioxide that contributes to climate change.
The Forest Service plans to protect the nearly 25 million acres it manages where towering trees still stand, the first national plan to protect old-growth forests from commercial logging
This is a step which should have been taken decades ago, and is a piece of ending deforestation.