USDA Proposes Repealing Rule that Prevents Roads on 60M Acres of National Forests

Public Can Comment on Proposal for More Roads on National Forest Land

Community members have a chance to weigh in on a proposal to pave new roads in national forests. U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins opened a 21-day comment period on her proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Conservation Rule, which protects 58 million acres of national forest land from road development.  Locally, 635,000 acres of remote land in the Los Padres National Forest could be at risk of roadbuilding and industrial logging, acc…

USDA proposes repealing rule that prevents roads on 60M acres of national forests

The sounds of motorized vehicles may soon be coming to the national forests as the Trump Administration has proposed repealing the 2001 Roadless Rule.

Trump administration moves closer to ending protections for 58M acres of national forests

The Trump administration is moving forward with a plan to open up more than 58 million acres of previously protected national forests to development, including 85,000 acres of Tennessee backcountry. In a Wednesday announcement, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins…

The Roadless Rule Is on the Chopping Block — and So Are Our Wildest Forests • The Revelator

This widely popular regulation protects 58.5 million acres of national forests and 1,600 at-risk species. The Trump administration wants gut it. The post The Roadless Rule Is on the Chopping Block — and So Are Our Wildest Forests appeared first on The Revelator.

Tuesday, September 2, 2025 – Trump administration pushes for increased logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest » Native America Calling

The Trump administration is working to remove protections for more than 58 million acres of national forests. A brief public comment period is now open on a plan to rescind the federal government’s 25-year-old Roadless Rule which prohibits road construction and timber harvesting in several states. Environmental groups and leaders of Alaska Native tribes with cultural ties to the Tongass National Forest — the country’s largest national forest — a…