The move to bypass some environmental review could cut years off the normal approval process required to cut smaller trees in national forests and use intentionally lit low-intensity fires to reduce dense brush that has helped fuel raging wildfires that have killed up to 20 percent of all large sequoias over the past two years.
Original article: https://www.reviewjournal.com/news/nation-and-world/us-plans-emergency-action-to-save-sequoias-from-wildfires-2611937/
