Sign up to see the future, today Can’t-miss innovations from the bleeding edge of science and tech Beyond its brutal immigration enforcement campaigns and horrifying attacks on Iranian civilians, the Trump administration has made steady progress dismantling one of the US’s national treasures: its forests. Since Donald Trump took office for the second time last year, his administration has set about firing roughly 10 percent of the US Forest Service staff, accelerating the harvesting of federal forests for private profit, and opening protected wildlife areas for exploitation by oil and gas conglomerates. Under his direction, the government is also spreading oceans of the toxic herbicide Roundup on clear-cut and fire-impacted forests across the country, Mother Jones reports. Roundup, a brand name of herbicide made of glyphosate salt and sold by chemical giant Bayer, has long been alleged to cause multiple types of cancer in humans, particularly the group of blood cancers known as non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma. Roundup’s effect on forest life is also appalling. As the Forest Service’s own 2011 ecological risk assessment on glyphosate notes, the …