Trump takes action to increase U.S. lumber supply and curb wood imports

President Donald Trump has signed an executive order and a memorandum aimed at increasing domestic lumber production and investigating potential national security risks posed by wood imports. The measures, announced Saturday, seek to streamline the permitting process for timber harvesting and reduce the United States’ reliance on foreign lumber. The executive order, titled “Freeing Our Forest,” directs multiple federal agencies to expedite and expand domestic timber and lumber production. The order mandates that the Department of the Interior, the Department of Agriculture, the Bureau of Land Management, and the U.S. Forest Service develop new policies to boost logging ...