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I'm looking across at the olympic peninsula right now from victoria right now and it really just settled in for me that losing that might actually be possible.

I would literally be willing to die trying to save the hoh rainforest.

Am I overreacting here?

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[–] MaryO@lemm.ee 10 points 1 day ago* (last edited 1 day ago)

I live in the Allegheny National Forest area, of Pennsylvania and it's regularly logged. I could even buy a permit to cut my fire wood from the forest if I wanted to. But it's all done in a relatively responsible way. There is no clear cutting, and I could only take a certain amount of trees for personal firewood use. They log for forest management, the same way they have controlled burns.

If you have a local forestry service, or some sort of similar organization, go talk with them. Ask them what the current policies, practices and plans are. Ask them if they anticipate any changes based on the new Republican Administration and plan any actions based on that information.

I'm nervous about new gas wells around here, but Pennsylvania has a process where you have to request a permit and it's only good for one year, and they post the latitude and longitude of all the permit requests they get. So at least I have access to that information.

I suppose I am referencing a national forest and you are referencing a nation park. There are differences there for sure, so this might not be as applicable as I thought.