Trump administration plans to rescind rule blocking logging on national forest lands

The Trump administration claims roads in forests prevent wildfires. Researchers disagree.

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Trump administration plan could allow reconstruction in 85,000 acres of Tennessee National Forest land

Around 85,000 acres across the state, including pockets of the Cherokee National Forest, are currently protected under the 2001 Roadless Rule.

What the end of the ‘roadless rule’ could mean for Utah’s national forests

The Henderson Canyon inventoried roadless area in Dixie National Forest is pictured on March 1, 2019. (Photo courtesy of Tim Peterson, flown by Lighthawk)The U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture recently announced it would try to roll back the “roadless rule,” a decades-old policy that prevents road construction and logging on nearly 4 million acres of national forest in Utah.  Brooke Rollins, the department’s secretary, called the rule “over…

Trump admin plans to rescind ‘roadless rule.’ Here’s what that means for millions of acres of forest across Utah.

As wildfires rage across southern Utah, the Trump administration is looking to remove decades-old protections for millions of acres of forests in a move it says will help prevent such blazes.

ForestWatch: Ending Roadless Rule Imperils Los Padres Forest

In a sweeping rollback of longstanding forest protections, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced the agency’s intent to eliminate the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The federal safeguard has protected 58 million acres of undeveloped national forest lands from roadbuilding and industrial logging for more than two decades. The move, announced at a meeting of the Western Governors’ Association this week, threatens vast tracts…

Los Padres National Forest Faces New Threat with Rollback of ‘Roadless Rules’

The Trump administration’s plan would open 600,000 acres of roadless areas to commercial logging, vegetation management, and possible infrastructure development.