Solarpunk

This plan is insane.

To protect tree growth, kill everything else!

Except this kills the soil, soil needs plants or it dries out and erodes. Soil also needs a microbiome of fungi and microbes to keep it healthy.

And it kills the pollinators, which trees need to reproduce. And it kills things like the squirrels that scatter seeds across the land, so the trees won’t be able to reproduce.

And it encourages a monoculture. One wave of disease or insect will kill the entire region’s biosphere.

So to protect the trees, kill everything else, make it so they can’t reproduce, and make the soil inhospitable. What fucking moron approved this.

I'm going to go against the grain here and say the use of glyphosate is likely the appropriate thing to do. If you actually read the article they're talking about targeting very specific areas with backpack sprayers to control invasives/non natives so that native trees can grow back after a wildfire. This is conservationism. Most conservationists will use glyphosate or other broad leaf herbicides for this type of thing, because often it is the only way to get rid of aggressive invasives and allow natives to flourish. It does not have long lasting affects on the soil according to research I have seen and if they're careful about it (which the US Forestry Service usually is, they tend to know their shit) then it won't end up in the water either.

This sounds like rich white lady not understanding how forests are managed/conserved imo.

Its a job creation program for the healthcare sector

Wisdom has long since lost the battle with selfishness.