Gaia's Guardians Needed
SOS -- Our Forests Need us to Stop the Steal of our Forests Before Memorial Day !
A Brief Note from Bodhi and the Muse — AND an Invite to Protect our Forest Lands!
Our Current Administration is actively endangering the health safety and well being of our forests and all species who make their home there. Under the guise of Trump’s “emergency declarations” and a push for a budget reconciliation bill to by pass congressional oversight BEFORE Memorial Day Holiday, This is what is happening in a Forest nearby in Santa Barbara/Ventura County California.
Do you know what is happening to the forest nearby you?
Because Bodhi and the Muse care deeply about the Sanctuary the Forest provide and offers us as a key part of our balanced ecosystems AND our true love for “Forest Bathing,” we are inspired to rally you all on behalf of Old Growth Forests and our public forest lands.
In the first ninety days of chaos, the Trump administration has been enacting the policies of Project 2025 with frightening speed and velocity designed to decimate environmental protections and channel resources to designated special corporate interests.
For those of us who love the forests and treat trees rivers and streams with respect and reverence, we are rallying with our fellow tree lovers to ask you to help Save the Forest from Trumps deceptive legislation like “Fix the Forest” or the “Wildfire Risk Mitigation Act” These are carefully designed DOGE/project 2025 word deceptions to distract citizens from the true intent of the policies they are fast tracking under a false “emergency declaration” to by pass the systems of checks and balances of our constitution.
Here…see what I mean… This is from my Los Padres Forest Watch friends who have been protecting Pine Mountain from extractive industries like the timber logging and mining industries who have set their sights on these public lands for private profiteering.
Is Trump’s use of “emergency declarations” to by pass rule of order and Congressional approval.
Trump Administration Declares “Emergency” to Expedite Logging in National Forests
By ForestWatch on April 5, 2025 in Forest Service, Logging & Vegetation Clearing, Los Padres National Forest
Washington, DC – The Trump Administration today made it easier to expand commercial logging on millions of acres of national forest land across the country. The move opens nearly all of Los Padres National Forest to widespread removal of trees, chaparral, and other native vegetation, with minimal public oversight and environmental review.
The plans were announced as part of a secretarial memo issued by Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins. The memo makes an “emergency situation determination” covering 112,646,000 acres of national forest land. This determination is framed as addressing a wildfire crisis but relies heavily on references to “domestic timber production” and “heavy-handed federal policies” like environmental safeguards, and tiers to President Trump’s Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production Executive Order issued last month.
“This is a thinly veiled attempt to ramp up logging on our national forests, bypass environmental laws, and line the pockets of the timber industry,” said ForestWatch executive director Jeff Kuyper. “This move—coupled with mass firings, budget cuts, and environmental rollbacks—will wreak havoc on the Los Padres and other national forests across the country.”
With the “emergency” determination in place, the Forest Service can approve logging and vegetation removal projects on an expedited basis, while bypassing environmental protection laws and public input. Specifically, the memo:
Eliminates the agency’s longstanding requirement to consider and adopt less-damaging alternatives to Forest Service logging projects
Exempts logging projects from the administrative objection process, limiting the public’s ability to raise concerns about the agency’s decision before it is finalized
Encourages streamlined reviews for logging projects under the Endangered Species Act, the Clean Water Act, and the National Historic Preservation Act, placing wildlife, rivers, and Native American cultural sites at greater risk of harm from heavy machinery and erosion.
This dangerous policy is what is being voted on during this “big beautiful tax bill” process in this week of May 19, 2025. “Fix the Forest” is a farce as is the re-design of the “Clean Air and Water Act.” Bodhi and the Muse will continue to write more about this VIP matter as we return from a long hiatus from all things Muse Newsletter.
Thank you for being such patient and loyal friends my readers and if you subscribe — thank you for saying you think it is worth you time money and attention.
Oh yes, and besides protecting the Forest, we invite you to visit the one nearby you and take a photo to share the beauty with us here. All we need to do is spend time in Nature to appreciate the beauty and the wonder of what we are blessed with on this — as of yet — inhabitable planet earth her forest water and wetlands. All worthy of protection and not designed to be exploited overtly extracted or abused to advantage a few at the expense of all others.