US Policies are a Race-to-the Bottom for Nations Trying to End Forest Losses by 2030

Google Earth Image of the “checkerboard” pattern of alternating private lands (with clearcuts) and BLM lands (US federal land; remaining green areas between clearcuts) in southern Oregon. Onshore logging does nothing to solve domestic forest losses or global deforestation.

Increasingly, we are hearing rhetoric about how domestic logging in Canada, Australia, Europe, and the US is ‘home grown, green, sustainable,’ and necessary to avoid global (offshore) deforestation problems. In a May 1 Letter in Science Magazine...