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Trump administration moves to allow logging in pristine national forests

Lisa Friedman and Maxine Joselow | The New York Times — Wed, 19 Aug 2026 12:00:01 +0000

The Trump administration on Tuesday advanced a plan to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to road construction and logging, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century.

Trump shrank Utah’s monuments. Now mining companies are staking claims.

Maxine Joselow | The New York Times — Mon, 17 Aug 2026 12:04:47 +0000

About a month after President Donald Trump sharply reduced the size of two national monuments in Utah, at least nine mining claims have been staked on land that is no longer protected from development, public records show.