The ‘unintended consequences’ from massive deforestation projects continue to mount

By: George Ochenski

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: June 26, 2026

Words: 615

Last Updated: 3 weeks, 6 days ago

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Twenty-three years ago, the Bush administration and Republican majorities in both chambers of Congress passed the so-called “Healthy Forests Restoration Act.” Falsely claiming our forests were “unnaturally dense,” they redefined living forests full of trees as unacceptable “fuel loading,” and set about to promote “landscape scale” logging, thinning, and burning projects across millions of acres of National Forests to return them to “health.”

But then the unintended consequences began to mount and …

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