Trump’s push to solve wildfires by expanding logging won’t work

In an emergency directive issued late last week, U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced her department’s plan to expand logging and timber production by 25% and, in the process, dismantle the half-century-old environmental review system that has blocked the federal government from finalizing major decisions concerning national forest lands without public insight. 

Under Rollins’s direction and following an earlier executive order signed by President Donald Trump...