Unpacking Trump’s mining and timber EOs

03/04/2025 40 min
Unpacking Trump’s mining and timber EOs

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Episode Synopsis

Kate and Aaron talk to two experts about recent executive orders that negatively affect public lands. Mitch Friedman, founder and executive director of Conservation Northwest, talks about how Trump’s executive order aimed at increasing logging in national forests squares with existing law and forest management plans, while Rachael Hamby, policy director at the Center for Western Priorities, covers Trump’s recent order seeking to ramp up mining on public lands.
News

Republicans weigh sales of public land in reconciliation – E&E News
Anti-public lands bills take hits in Legislature – Missoula Current

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Credits
Hosts: Kate Groetzinger & Aaron Weiss 
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Music: Purple Planet
Featured image: The White Mountain National Forest, New Hampshire, USA; weesam2010/Flickr
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