by wamfee | Jun 25, 2025 | Blog
On June 23, 2025, the Trump Administration announced plans to repeal the 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects nearly a third of U.S. national forests from logging, road construction, and development. Of the 58.5 million acres of inventoried roadless areas covered under...
by wamfee | Jun 24, 2025 | Blog
(June 24, 2025) Senator Mike Lee (R-Utah), chair of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee, has proposed selling 2.2 to 3.3 million acres of federal lands, including U.S. Forest Service and Bureau of Land Management holdings, as part of President Trump’s...
by wamfee | Apr 5, 2025 | Blog
On April 3, 2025, Secretary Brooke Rollins released Memorandum 1078-006, “Increasing Timber Production and Designating an Emergency Situation on National Forest System Lands” declaring an Emergency Situation Determination (ESD) encompassing 66,940,000 acres of...
by wamfee | Mar 3, 2025 | Blog
On March 1, 2025, President Donald J. Trump signed Executive Order (EO) 14225, titled “Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.” The EO proposes to increase logging on federal lands to reduce wildfire risks. This action has raised significant...
by wamfee | Dec 12, 2024 | Blog
In the early 1990s, Nansay Hawai’i, Inc., a Japanese corporation, proposed a resort development at Kohanaiki, including two hotels with over 1,000 rooms, 330 multiple family residential units, 380 single family homes, a golf course, health club, restaurants,...