Forests Need Strong Federal Logging Rule, Groups Tell Agencies

Federal logging projects in forests across the US led more than 100 environmental organizations to ask the Agriculture and Interior departments to further regulate the practice in a letter sent Tuesday.

The groups request that Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and Interior Secretary Deb Haaland, among other officials, immediately launch rulemaking to preserve forests on federal lands, which its authors called “one of the simplest and most cost-effective climate solutions.”

The letter seeks a public engagement process to create forest regulation that goes beyond an Earth Day executive order signed in April by President Joe Biden.

In their request, environmental groups ...