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Recently the Biden administration announced it will spend billions of dollars on logging forests to preclude or slow the spread of large wildfires. One of the arguments alleged by proponents of thinning or logging forests is that it would preclude wildfires and reduce carbon emissions from wildfire. Proponents argue that more trees survive a fire More 1

The post Logging Won’t Do Much to Reduce Large Wildfires 2 appeared first on CounterPunch.org 3 .


This content originally appeared on CounterPunch.org 4 and was authored by George Wuerthner.

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