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

White House sparks controversy with major rollback affecting nearly 60 million acres of land: 'Nothing more than a massive giveaway'

A decades-old policy protecting nearly one-third of national forest lands could soon be reversed. Environmental experts and advocates say the move would benefit timber companies while putting public access, water quality, and wildlife habitats at risk. What's happening? The Trump administration has announced plans to rescind the 2001 "roadless rule," a policy that blocks most logging and road-building in national forest areas that span roughly 5…

U.S. Dept. of Agriculture to eliminate rule protecting untouched forest

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is seeking to eliminate a decades old rule that protects untouched national forest land. It's part of efforts to ramp up timb

Forest Service wants to repeal Roadless Rule nationwide, including the Tongass

The U.S. Forest Service will seek to repeal a rule that has effectively blocked the logging of almost a third of America’s national forests, including acreage in the Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins told a meeting of Western governors on June 23 in New Mexico. The “Roadless Rule” has blocked the construction of new roads in wild areas of most sta...

Trump wants more logging in national forests. Here’s what that could mean for WA

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

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

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.