The Trump administration declared a state of emergency in timber supply and national forest health across the United States and the West.

A memo from the secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture released last week outlines the Trump administration’s plans to quickly expand logging operations in the country’s national forests,

President Donald Trump has imposed sweeping global tariffs based on his purported authority under the International Emergency Economic Powers Act of 1977. The president has declared the trade deficit an emergency, which supposedly unlocks his power to impose tariffs that would otherwise have to pass Congress.