Fix Our Forests Act Won’t Fix Anything
George Wuerthner
October 31, 2025
he Fix Our Forests Act is another example of Orwellian terminology and will not address the issue. Our forests are not in “need” of fixing by chainsaws. Indeed, it will exacerbate the ongoing degradation of our forest ecosystems through logging and other forms of forest manipulation.
The legislation is supported by most Western politicians and logging advocates, including the National Association of State Foresters, American Forests, The Nature Conservancy, Wild Turkey Foundation, National Audubon, The Property and Environment Research Center (PERC), Rocky Mountain Elk Foundation, and numerous other organizations with limited expertise in wildfire ecology.
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The notion that forests are “unhealthy” is rooted in a timber industry paradigm, which is conveniently promoted by forestry schools, the timber industry, and state and federal forestry agencies. To most foresters and their allies, anything other than a chainsaw that causes tree mortality, whether drought, disease, insects, or wildfire, is a sign of an “unhealthy” forest. So they advocate “chainsaw medicine” to “fix” what ails our forests, typically killing up to 50–70% of the existing trees.
It is what I call the Vietnam approach to forests. As one military leader observed: “It became necessary to destroy the town to save it.” Just as in Vietnam, the US government determined that the only way to win the war was to destroy the country; the Fix Our Forests Act promotes a similar solution.
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