#roadless — Public Fediverse posts

#Trump admin moves ahead to end #roadless rule on #NationalForests

Environmentalists [warn] …lifting protections will have detrimental effects for old growth #forests, #wildlife & #water supplies.

“Americans across the political spectrum have made it crystal clear that they don’t want political appointees removing protections from #PublicLands,” said Chris Krupp, an attorney with the group WildEarth Guardians.

#law #SaveRoadless #conservation #ClimateChange
https://apnews.com/article/roadless-rule-forests-trump-e80a41e0231aa070313a3484261368f3?utm_source=app&utm_medium=iOS_share&utm_campaign=more_org_joinmastodon_app_shareactionextension

Native forests, roads and fires
The last remaining roadless intact old-growth forests in America
Trump administration to rescind rule protecting old-growth forests

"Almost 45m acres of national forests could be potentially opened to road construction, drilling and logging."

“...The roadless rule has always allowed for targeted actions to reduce hazardous fuels. What it does not allow is using wildfire as an excuse to open some of America’s most intact public forests to industrial exploitation and new road construction.The administration’s attempt to blame the roadless rule for worsening wildfire risk ignores both the facts and the rule itself. Roads generally lead to more ignitions and result in more wildfires – not fewer."

“Once you start bulldozing roads for commercial logging and industrial development, there’s no getting them back.” >>
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2026/aug/18/trump-administration-growth-forests
#NativeForests #biodiversity #conservation #UnsustainableLogging #LoggingIndustry #PublicForests #IndustrialExploitation #extractivism #roads #roadless #FossilFuels #bushfires #NSWLogging

Roadless area conservation: No roads, no extractive activities

Trump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
* "The move would affect more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, opening it to potential logging, energy and mining projects. It would undercut a sweeping Clinton administration policy known as the “roadless rule,” which has survived a decades-long legal assault." >>
https://geosinstitute.org/past-initiative-forest-legacies/tongass/trump-pushes-to-allow-new-logging-in-alaska-s-tongass-national-forest/

* "Roadless area conservation is a conservation policy limiting road construction and the resulting environmental impact on designated areas of public land...In 'Industrial Tourism and the National Parks': Abbey describes road construction as "unnecessary or destructive development" and the loss of wilderness as a consequence of what he called "industrial tourism", where once-secluded natural areas become popularized and degraded." >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadless_area_conservation

* What Is the Roadless Rule? "Enacted in 2001, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Roadless Rule) designated forests across the country as “inventoried roadless areas,” prohibiting the building of — you guessed it, new roads — but also logging and other harmful industries on these lands." >>
https://environmentamerica.org/articles/what-is-the-roadless-rule-and-why-should-you-care-about-it/
#forests #biodiversity #rainforest #roads #harm #extractivism #roadless #conservation #LoggingImpacts #mining #tourism #BellingenLogging #GlenifferRoad #NSWLogging #RoadlessRule

Why does the #roadless rule matter? It protects 60 MILLION acres of land from logging, mining, fracking, drilling, and the irresponsible building of infrastructure. Over 180 MILLION #Americans depend on clean drinking water from these areas

What’s so bad about a road?
Roads are forest killers.

"A road means access. Once roads are bulldozed into rainforests, illegal loggers, miners, poachers and landgrabbers arrive. Once they get access, they can destroy forests, harm native ecosystems and even drive out or kill indigenous peoples. This looting of the natural world robs cash-strapped nations of valuable natural resources."

"When ghost roads appear, local deforestation soars – usually immediately after the roads are built. We found the density of roads was by far the most important predictor of forest loss, outstripping 38 other variables. No matter how one assesses them, roads are forest killers."
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Ghost roads and the destruction of Asia-Pacific tropical forests
https://theconversation.com/roads-of-destruction-we-found-vast-numbers-of-illegal-ghost-roads-used-to-crack-open-pristine-rainforest-227222
#roads #NativeForests #rainforest #biodiversity #deforestation #extractivism #destruction #LoggingIndustry #NSWLogging #BellingenLogging #access #LoggingImpacts #mapping #roadless

Statewide coalition files suit challenging reimposition of Tongass National Forest’s Roadless Rule
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JUNEAU – On Friday, Sept. 8, 2023, a group of 24 diverse, statewide Alaska resource associations, Southeast Alaska communities, utilities, and businesses filed a Complaint opposing the U.S. Department of...
https://alaska-native-news.com/statewide-coalition-files-suit-challenging-reimposition-of-tongass-national-forests-roadless-rule/69814/
#tongass #roadless rule

Tongass Roadless Rule Re-instated http://www.sitnews.us/0123News/012923/012923_tongass_roadless.html #forests #roadless #wilderness #USA

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