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Republican solution to wildfires: Sell the trees!

2013-09-24 18:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Grist: House Republicans have a cunning plan for tackling the wildfires that have been ravaging the American West this fire season: They want to allow loggers to haul away the trees before they burn. No forests means no forest fires, see? The Restoring Healthy Forests for Healthy Communities Act was approved mostly along party lines by the Republican-controlled House of Representatives on Friday. The bill would more than double logging nationwide and turn some forestlands into pasturelands. But...

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