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The MAGA plan to stop forest fires: Remove the forest

Project 2025 plans to increase commercial logging to fight wildfires. Ecologists and fire experts say this will make fires worse.

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Arielle Samuelson
Sep 03, 2024
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This story is part of HEATED’s series on Project 2025. To learn more, check out our series announcement.

As the world continues to burn fossil fuels, the climate crisis has pushed wildfires into unnatural “megafires” that consume millions of acres in a single season. This year’s wildfire activity is nearly 3,000 percent higher in California than last yea…

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