[MCN] Trump budget would endanger funding for logging roads: How bad is that?

[Lance Olsen]

Excerpt: Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, also raised concerns about the cut’s impact on roads, noting cuts could make it tougher for timber purchasers to access the forests.

H. Sterling Burnett, a research fellow on environmental policy at the Heartland Institute, a conservative think tank in Illinois, said the budget cuts are necessary to control spending.

He said since cuts to politically popular programs such as defense or entitlements like Medicare are unlikely, agencies like the forest service will have to see their budgets squeezed.

“[Budget cuts] have to come and they have to be steep,” he said. “You can’t fiddle around the edges.”

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