Situation Update (04.04.2023) | FM 144



Situation Update (04.04.2023)

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Since March, the increased Mars energies have been active and so the situation on the Earth’s surface (in combination with the increasingly stronger influence from the Sun and Galactic Central Sun) is currently becoming more and more chaotic and also increasingly warlike. I do not want to go into geopolitical, sociopolitical or financial events at this time, as some of these topics are physical effects of certain energetic processes, while other things are merely happening to keep the surface population distracted, panicked and divided. It is much more interesting to see what is going on behind the scenes and what new information is being brought to light.

Lately, the Light Forces have taken massive action against the underground systems and tunnels of the “C-beings”. There are probably also many Lightwarriors incarnated here on the surface who are reading this blog and are astrally involved in these operations. Maybe some of them are able to remember fragments of their missions during daytime consciousness. If they don’t, this is not a bad thing because it’s for their own protection. For the human self, such experiences are not easy to process, as clearings of these underground facilities are most comparable to a mixture of Torech Ungol (Tolkien’s Lord of the Rings) and the military science fiction novel Starship Troopers. Let’s just say it’s not for the faint-hearted.

Conducting these operations has also allowed the Light Forces to gain and release new information about the Dark Ones. For example, many Lightworkers on the surface (including myself) have assumed that the “C-beings” were actually previously high evolved and positive spiritual beings who became disconnected from Source through contact with the Anomaly. But this is apparently no longer 100% correct. Just as, for example, angels were born from the Heart of the Source, there are apparently “C-beings” who were created out of the Darkness/Anomaly without having been in contact with the Source before. So, they have always been negative and presumably will continue to be so until they are dissolved by the Light. I don’t know if this applies to all, but at least to some of them.

The second piece of information I have received concerns the question of who first set foot on Earth, Light Forces or Dark Ones?

So far, the general narrative, which I also have assumed, has been that the Light Forces colonized this planet with humans to create a paradise out of uninhabited Earth and thus spread the Light even further inside this galaxy … until the Dark Ones came along. They invaded, took over and installed the Grid with the incarnation prison … which is still true, except for one thing: the Light Forces apparently didn’t get here first.

It looks as if a faction of the “C-beings” already landed earlier and hid under the surface before another faction set foot on the planet.

Though it is the case that the Light Forces carefully scan every uninhabited planet before planning colonization, they apparently were not able at that time to detect the Dark Ones, perfectly camouflaged by their exotic technology beneath the surface of the Earth.

Currently, I cannot say whether the “C-beings” deliberately hid inside Earth (so that Light Forces or humanity would fall into their trap in the event of possible colonization) or whether they simply wanted to just hide and were then surprised themselves that the planet was suddenly colonized … but either way, that doesn’t matter anymore. The trap snapped, as that is the characteristic of arachnoid beings when prey runs into their web.

So, they were able to manipulate the structure of Atlantis from the beginning, secretly bring in reinforcements from other sectors of the universe through underground portals, and in the end call in their entire fleet to finally invade from the surface, bring Atlantis down and install the Grid. This perhaps explains even better why Atlantis failed back then, and why we are where we are today. Unfortunately, we were caught like flies in a web.

If the Light Forces had recognized at that time that the Dark Ones were already lurking below the surface, i.e. that the planet was “contaminated”, the Earth would have never been colonized. Instead, the planet would have been completely sealed off and declared a restricted zone. Only military units would have been allowed to set foot on or under the surface, for the purpose to remove the “C-beings”. After that, the Earth would presumably remain under strict military observation by the Light Forces until today and beyond … a colonization would still not have taken place.

These are the difficulties that the Dark Ones cause through their exotic technologies: On the one hand, there are the Toplet Bombs, which make action against them incredibly dragging, on the other hand, there is their ability to camouflage, which also makes them so incredibly difficult to detect. But this is all water under the bridge now. The important thing is that the Liberation continues as quickly as possible.

The recent operations against the “C-beings” enables the Light Forces to take more effective action against the Cabal on the surface as well. For example, it is now becoming increasingly difficult for some Cabal members to operate unnoticed by the public. Things will not go so easily and well anymore. Some Cabal minions will begin to struggle with their health or lose their drive for the agenda.

The inner core of the Cabal will panic and possibly try to stage a nuclear war. The Light Forces assure that it will not come to that, but we could be getting pretty close to that scenario, similar to the compulsory vaccination during the pandemic which also seemed to be about to be introduced, but then ultimately failed. So, a similar scare scenario might threaten us during the current East-West conflict. At least it will appear so to the broad mass of people. In this case, my advice to Starseeds is to remain calm, just as during the pandemic.

Finally, I would like to thank you for all the e-mails. I have read through but unfortunately couldn’t answer all of them. Although a few black sheep wanted to exploit the contact opportunity, which was to be expected, the majority of the messages were really extremely positive and contained interesting information and questions, so again, thank you very much.

Minnow Pond Tarot: Sagittarius “Beware Of This Big Bad Wolf!” September 12th – 18th Tarot

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New Earth Rising: Choose New Earth

Forever Unlimited Consciousness ✨, [05.09.21 23:26]
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💫💗💫 With every thought and deed, we choose between the New Earth and the old.

💫The tell-tale sign you are choosing the New Earth, is that you feel love and optimism with out any sort of denial about the chaos that is unfolding in the world around you.

💗Anger, resentment and blame are the already chiseled roads that we must be careful not to slip into. The easier path is the path of fear and control. At least in the beginning, so it can be a challenge to tip-toe past it and not get snared.

💫It’s time for us to actively forge the path that steers away from battles laid out by the dark controllers. Now we hop off of the repetitive loop now.

💫Love and curiosity along with a relentlessly fierce compassion will anchor the New Earth into our open and curious hearts.

💫Let’s do this together!!

💫💗 We are the New Earth!! 💗💫



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JC Kay: TREE WHISPERER – Messages from the Trees (Series) PREDICTIONS – PROFOUND MESSAGES + Declaration of Sovereignty


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JC Kay was able to have several conversations with the Trees. She explains the process, discusses the importance of us tapping into our own inner voice in order to find answers. Then she gets in to the Message from the Trees. She is Clairaudient and thus can hear them speak, as a collective.

This resonates with my own experience when I lived in California. I have talked to trees on rare occasions, but since I am a Clairsentitent Empath, not Clairaudient, they shared to me through a feeling in my chest, that I could then translate into words for my friends. (“The Redwood Trees told me that the massive mudslide was a group agreement, that some agreed to sacrifice themselves to wipe out the road. They want to make a strong statement, that they don’t want any more building in this valley.” (Summit road in the Santa Cruz Mountains) It was similar to an intuitive flash I had that felt a feeling of “something feline in the road” before my first mountain lion encounter, when I lived in California and hiked in the wilderness
. (Sure enough there was a Mountain Lion next to the fire road at Muir Beach as I returned to my truck at dusk. The warning flash saved my life!)

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#110​ – TREE WHISPERER – Messages from the Trees (Part 1) 29 March 2021
#111​ – TREE WHISPERER – PREDICTIONS – Messages from the Trees (Part 2) 31 March 2021
#125​ TREE WHISPERER – A PROFOUND MESSAGE – Messages from the Trees (Part 3) 24 April 2021


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#92 THE ONE WHERE I TALK TO TREES … (JC Kay)
28th February, 2021

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#110​ – TREE WHISPERER – Messages from the Trees (Part 1)
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Thursday 1st April 2021
Message from the Tree was documented on the 29th March, 2021
For the complete story, please also watch my Part 2 Video.
You may also wish to watch my #92 Video, where I first talked to the Trees.


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#111​ – TREE WHISPERER – PREDICTIONS
– Messages from the Trees – (Part Two)

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This Message was received from the Trees on 31st March, 2021
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#125​ – TREE WHISPERER – A PROFOUND MESSAGE
– Messages from the Trees – (Part Three)

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25th April, 2021

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Declaration of Sovereignty – Official CHANNEL Quantum Truths JC Kay
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I RELEASE AND DECREE
I release all remaining resistance
I release all fear still stuck in my body, my cells, blood and bones
I release all unforgiveness
I release all resentment
I release all guilt
All shame
All blame
I release all victim energy
I release all persecutor energies
All judgement
All criticism
I release all preconceived ideas
I release all jealousy
All hate
All anger
All grief, pain and suffering
I release all frustration
I release all need to control
I release those that want to control me
All manipulation
I release spite
Al
l feelings of I’m not good enough or better than any other
I am releasing all remaining implants, devices, entities, attachments, cords, ties, vows, pacts, contracts, agreements, all and everything that binds me to the old, all that doesn’t serve my highest good any longer
I release all remaining feelings of separation from Self, others, my Higher Self, Soul, Oversoul, Monad and from Source
I release all remaining resistance to change
I release all suppression
I release all arrogance
I release my negative ego
I release my lower nature
I release all blocks, barriers and chains that prevent me from moving forward
I release all that blocks me from loving myself and others more deeply and receiving Love into my life
I release all outdated thinking, all belief systems, templates, programs, behavioral and thought patterns that keep me experiencing old Timelines and Experiences
I overwrite and override all lesser DNA, all lesser codes and strands within everyone of my cells, atoms, atomic and subatomic particles and waves and all the spaces in between, down to the mitochondria, across all time and space, all dimensions, all REALities, all Universes🔯💜🔯
I release all and everyone that is not in alignment with my highest good and Original Divine True HUman Source Blueprint
I release all feelings of hopelessness, despair, depression, low self worth and heaviness
I release all self denial, all delusions, all illusions, all false hopes
I release all blocks around my heart and mind
I release all density, all distortions, all mind control, all and everything trying to keep me down and hold me back
I am releasing all interferences
I am removing all and everything that is standing in my way from becoming the highest version of myself
I am releasing all lower thought forms trying to discourage me and hold me back
I release all that is not love, not compassion, not understanding, not forgiveness, not ONEness
I am releasing all feelings of doubt, disbelief and confusion
I release every thought, feeling and belief that I am not good or strong enough to make it AS I AM 🙏
I release all feelings and thoughts making me believe I am not worthy of a happy, peaceful, fulfilled, joyful, balanced, abundant and love filled life
I release all programming telling me I can not have it all
I release all worries, all tension, all anxiety
I release my old self, my lower self
All of me which I’ve come to love and accept and welcome home, I can now let go of all that is no longer in alignment
So I can integrate ALL OF ME
So I can release all that I am not
To make space for my True Self to emerge once again
My inner Christ
My True Divine HUman
My Source Self
Resurrected and Reborn
Like the Phoenix from the ashes
I rise like never before
As a new dawn breaks
I have arrived home, at last
I have arrived as the true authentic me
At home in my HEART
Pure Source Love
DIVINE LOVE
As ONE
Nothing else required
I AM SOURCE!
I AM SOVEREIGN!
I AM FREE!

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Gaia Portal: Dec ~ Jan by Éireport

Cleansing is begun… The Light of Life enters

20 Jan








Caretakers take flight.

Harbors of old elements are cleared.

Cleansing is begun.

The Light of Life enters.

Densities of the former are released

1 Jan








Densities of the former are released.

Upliftments follow.

Sidereals come to the core.

Light Path seekers are rewarded.

Minds open to the Radiance

20 Dec








Comforters apply the Master.

Melanomas are healed.

Skies open to the Radiance.

Minds open to the Radiance.


Fellows of the Land inspire the artisans of Light

7 Dec








Fellows of the Land inspire the artisans of Light.

Realities merge onto the single line.

Streaming visions set the paths.

Humanity thrives


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RETURN TO YOUR TRUTH: Yep, Cobra confirms … We succeeded, & they’ve been forced out of their holes

Yep, Cobra confirms … We succeeded, & they’ve been forced out of their holes: 144K Post Anti-Lockdown / Equinox Mass Meditation Debrief | RETURN TO YOUR TRUTH

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144K Post Anti-Lockdown / Equinox Mass Meditation Debrief 

This is a short report on the post dual Mass Meditations landscape
(of Sept 21 & 22).

Cobra has just confirmed the success of or Mass Meditations:
” … Saturn Chariklo conjunction on September 21st meant peak quarantine status for this planet, both as a planetary quarantine and as covid quarantine, and now the dark forces are daily losing their grip upon the surface of this planet.​..”

He goes on to say the Cabal will still try & impose its lock-down. But … as Cobra just put it, they’re now losing their grip on the surface situation.

CONGRATULATIONS TO ALL WHO PARTICIPATED!
(in one, or both of these two meditations)!


YOU helped …WE made the difference … and placed Gaia on to the higher timeline, where the nastiest possibilities don’t happen!
So much so, that …

… it appears that most or all remaining [dark force] assets have been found … exposed … and or forced out in the open.

​Cobra also just confirmed (almost certainly a result of our energetic & timeline impact) … that most or all remaining sub-lunar Draco / Dark fleets & also underground Cabal assets have been forced out  – to engage all Light Forces due to their accelerated – and inevitable – exposure.
In desperation, they’ve now tried to ‘break-out’ of the quarantine the Light Forces have on them, resulting in the huge escalation in combat engagement.

In other words – what was always going to happen before the final ‘wipe-out’ of all dark sub-lunar & underground assets (huge escalation of battles) has already started … perhaps pre-maturely based on expectations of the previous timeline …
… thanks to us!
:- )

Yes … we will be heeding Cobra’s/The Light Force’s call for more energy work (mass Meditations) on the:

Mars-Saturn Square of Sept 29 (4:30 PM New York time zone)
Mars-Pluto Square of Oct 9 (8:00 AM New York time zone)

Exact times for your time zone will be sent to you, so watch for that closely.

We’re really turning things around, because such an escalation in military engagements wasn’t really meant to start until after the US elections.

In the next week or so, we will be forming an “elite corps” here at 144K HQ, of members who are ready and able to do deep energy work on the planet (and on their personal situations as needed) approximately 3x per week. More info on that soon.

In the meantime, you can do a slightly more advanced version of the 10min daily Flower Of Life Meditation the Light Forces are requesting (with visual aids to help with this) right here.
 
IT’S REALLY HAPPENING FOLKS!
Stay-the-course …

Again, if you’re struggling … use the Codes. They’re there for a reason, to make things much easier for you, without the added time or effort on your part. Your abilities need to be further unleashed too. (And if they are ‘tugging’ on your implants when they’re desperate, the Implants Removal Code is there to help you remove and defeat your implants).

Things are critical right now … so much so … that I’m re-activating the 144K only 66% OFF Coupon Code.  TimeToBREATHEandRise 

Proceeds will go towards recruit way more new 144K Members for even BIGGER Mass Meditations this autumn.

WATCH YOUR INBOX.

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Rest, Retreat, and Balance at the Fall Equinox

Rest eludes many of us, but time out, resting in nature is perhaps the most healing -inaction- we can (not) do!

The Druid's Garden

I don’t know about you, but 2020 has been a hell of a year.  Usually, the Fall Equinox and the coming of the dark half of the year is a time for celebration, as Fall is my favorite season. But this year, the idea of moving into the dark half of the year when so much has already been dark is hard.  We have so much loss, death, employment insecurity, health insecurity, food insecurity, sickness, political unrest….the list goes on and on. Here in the US in particular, things are really difficult and many are dealing with basic issues to security, including financial security, food security, health security, and obviously, a lot of isolation. So, given these challenges, I think its important to fall back on our spiritual practices for nurturing, support, and grounding and embrace what the season offers. The Fall Equinox, as a time of balance, can help…

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Wildfires Will Become Worse Thanks To Decades-Old Liberal Policies, Says Fire Expert Who Predicted Uptick In Blazes

Wildfires Will Become Worse Thanks To Decades-Old Liberal Policies, Says Fire Expert Who Predicted Uptick In Blazes

A vehicle is seen on fire on a side road in Molalla, Oregon

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  • Former President Bill Clinton’s land management rules and other liberal policies paved the way for future debilitating wildfires, fire expert Bob Zybach told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

  • Zybach warned of potential disastrous wildfires shortly after Clinton signed a slate of rules in the mid-1990s that drastically reduced logging and road creation on federal lands.

  • Zybach’s comments come as California, Oregon, and parts of Washington deal with catastrophic wildfires that have killed 26 people and destroyed buildings.



Former President Bill Clinton made a significant change to federal land management nearly 30 years ago that created the conditions necessary for massive wildfires to consume portions of the West Coast, according to one fire expert who predicted the problem years ago.


Shortly before leaving office in 2001, Clinton limited the ability of the United States Forest Service to thin out a dense thicket of foliage and downed trees on federal land to bring the West into a pristine state, Bob Zybach, an experienced forester with a PhD in environmental science, told the Daily Caller News Foundation. The former president’s decision
created a ticking time bomb, Zybach argues.


“If you don’t start managing these forests, then they are going to start burning up. Thirty years later, they are still ignoring it,” said Zybach, who spent more than 20 years as a reforestation contractor. He was referring to warnings he made years ago, telling officials that warding off prescribed burns in Oregon and California creates kindling fuelling fires.


Such rules make it more difficult to deploy prescribed burns, which are controlled burns designed to cull all of the underbrush in forests to lessen the chance of massive fires, Zybach noted. Years of keeping these areas in their natural state result in dead trees and dried organic material settling on the forest floor, turning such material into matchsticks soaked in jet fuel during dry seasons, he said.


Zybach’s comments come as wildfires continue churning through parts of California, Oregon, and Washington, media reports show. Fires have killed 26 people in West Coast states since August, including 19 people in California, and have culminated in more than half-a-million people evacuating Oregon, a number representing roughly 10% of the state’s overall population.


Roughly 100 massive fires are blazing Saturday in the West, including 12 in Idaho and nine in Montana, the National Interagency Fire Center said Saturday. All told, the wildfires have churned through more than 4.5 million acres in 12 states.


(RELATED: Wildfires, Blackouts And High Gas Prices: Californians Fight Familiar Foes Amid Pandemic)

Former President Bill Clinton
(LUKE FRAZZA/AFP via Getty Images)


Shortly before leaving office, Clinton introduced the Roadless Rule that restricted the use of existing roads and construction of new roads on 49 million acres of National Forest, making it difficult for officials to scan the land for the kind of kindling that fuels massive conflagrations.


The move was part of the Northwest Forest Plan (NWFP), a resolution adopted by Clinton in 1994 to protect forests from being over-logged.


Ten years before Clinton’s rule, the Fish and Wildlife Service placed the northern spotted owl on the Endangered Species Act, forcing the Forest Service to adopt a new policy that resulted in a greater reduction in timber harvests. The amount of timber removed from federal lands plummeted, according to data accumulated in 2015 by the Reason Foundation.


An average of 10.3 billion feet of timber was removed each year from Forest Service land between 1960 and 1990, the data show. Those numbers dropped between 1991 and 2000 and continued dropping — an average of only 2.1 billion feet of timber was removed from the land between 2000 and 2013, according to the data. That’s an 80% decline.


“They’ve gone and left hundreds of thousands of acres of burnt timber, a fire bomb waiting to happen, standing in place because the black back woodpecker prefers that habitat,” Zybach said. “It’s great for lawyers, but it’s bad for people who breathe air or work in the woods.”


“The prescribed burns are an ancient form of management for keeping the fuels down so these events don’t happen,” Zybach added, referring to Native American Indians who used controlled burns to ward away pests and prevent wildfires from licking their homes.


The Clinton administration’s plan to turn forests in the West into pristine land free of human interference risked fueling “wildfires reminiscent of the Tillamook burn, the 1910 fires and the Yellowstone fire,” Zybach, who is based in Oregon, told Evergreen magazine in 1994, when the NWFP came into effect.


Western Oregon had one major fire above 10,000 acres between 1952 and 1987, reports show. The Silver Complex Fire of 1987 snapped that streak after torching more than 100,000 acres in the Kalmiopsis Wilderness area, killing rare plants and trees the federal government sought to protect from human activities.


Fire Experts Agree: Prescribed Burns Are Critical 


Overzealous fire suppression across California are helping to build up wildland fuels, which contribute to wildfires, according to Tim Ingalsbee, a fire ecologist who began a career in the 1980s as a wildland firefighter. The solution is “to get good fire on the ground and whittle down some of that fuel load,” he told ProPublica in August.


“It’s just … well … it’s horrible. Horrible to see this happening when the science is so clear and has been clear for years. I suffer from Cassandra syndrome,” Ingalsbee said, referring to the Cassandra Syndrome, a Greek metaphor people use when they believe their valid warnings are not heeded.


“Every year I warn people: Disaster’s coming. We got to change. And no one listens. And then it happens.”


Other experts have made similar arguments in the past.

A US forestry firefighter cools a burning modular home to protect a nearby structure in Deerhorn Valley as the Harris Fire continues growing beyond 70,000 acres on October 24, 2007 near Jamul, California. Southern California is being ravaged by numerous record wildfires as Santa Ana Wind conditions push them into communities surrounded by native Chaparral habitat that has been dried by the driest rain season since records began 130 years ago. The fires are shaping up to be the worst wildfire event in San Diego County history. As many as 500,000 people have been evacuated from their homes. (Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)

A US forestry firefighter cools a burning modular home
(Photo by David McNew/Getty Images)


Overgrown grasslands, forests, and woodlands contributed to California wildfires in 2017, Sasha Berleman, a fire ecologist, told High Country News that year. “I’m more certain than ever that there’s a lot we can do between now and the next time this happens to make it so that the negative consequences to people are nowhere near as dramatic,” she said.

The devastating fires that ran through California’s wine country in October of 2017 killed 42 people and destroyed nearly 7,000 buildings, High Country News noted.

The solution might be easier said than done. Nearly 20 million acres in California, or an area about the size of Maine, will need to experience controlled burns to limit catastrophic wildfires, a January study from Nature Sustainability found.

Blaming Climate Change


Former President Barack Obama suggested in a tweet Thursday that California’s wildfires are a result of climate change.

“The fires across the West Coast are just the latest examples of the very real ways our changing climate is changing our communities,” Obama wrote in a tweet that included pictures showing how soot and ash from the wildfires are turning San Francisco’s sky bright orange.

Obama isn’t the only prominent Democrat tying the fires to global warming.

Senate Minority Leader Chuck Schumer, a Democrat from New York, published a tweet Saturday that read: “The proof of the urgency of the climate crisis is literally in the air around us.” Schumer included a link to a Sept. 10 article from CBS blaming climate change for the fires.

Zybach is not convinced. “The lack of active land management is almost 100 percent the cause,” he told the DCNF, noting that climate change has almost nothing to do with fire kindling gathering across the forest floors. Other researchers share his skepticism.

“Global warming may contribute slightly, but the key factors are mismanaged forests, years of fire suppression, increased population, people living where they should not, invasive flammable species, and the fact that California has always had fire,” University of Washington climate scientist Cliff Mass told TheDCNF in 2018.

Mass’s critique came as Mendocino Complex Fire was spreading across California on its way to becoming the largest wildfire in the state, engulfing more than 283,000 acres.

EDITOR’S NOTE: A previous version of this article stated that an average of 10 million feet of timber was removed each year from Forest Service land between 1960 and 1990. The actual number was 10,3 billion. The article has been updated to reflect the change.

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