Trump orders swathes of US forests to be cut down for timber

theguardian.com

Firing half the govt's lawyers may backfire in the face of all the lawsuits. The lawyers trying cases for the government are already being scolded by judges for their lack of preparedness

Certainly with the end of Chevron Doctrine, this needs to be decided by the courts, not some institution... another "we didn't think this would be used against us..." for the Heritage Foundation

Is there even anyone left to enforce the rulings though? What if the royal court just decided not to care? Congress took a vacation also.

Judges to put in place injunctions and fines?

The govt can say, make these lands available for logging, but cannot do it themselves. Do the companies want to risk big legal bills and fines?

Since these are federal lands, can't he just wave his presidential pardon around?

States could be the ones behind crimes and fines too, which the president has no power to pardon. The fines could also come 4 years from now, unless they are preemptively pardoned I guess

is there a re-plant program?

not currently

Trump is 78 years old and has never shown a single care for anything that didn't directly benefit him personally...

tl;dr - lol, no

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