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“Now, some of those last remaining lands free of roads are under threat from the Trump administration’s proposed rollback of the 2001 Roadless Rule. That includes southeast Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, where eagles, bears, salmon, and many other species thrive in old-growth coastal forest along the Inside Passage.
In announcing its plan, the administration said rescinding the rule would remove prohibitions on road construction and logging on nearly 59 million acres of national forest, arguing that the rule slowed economic development. A 30-day public comment period on the formal proposal starts once it is published in the Federal Register. Instructions on how to submit comments are included in the proposal.
In Congress, another effort is underway to try to change the law through an amendment to the Wildfire Prevention Act. That change, if approved, would both remove the Roadless Rule and prevent the US Forest Service from reinstituting it in the future, despite overwhelming public support for the rule.
As ecologists who have spent decades studying wilderness and the animals and ecological functions that depend on undisturbed habitats, we believe it’s important to understand that preserving roadless areas has value for environmental health, clean water, wildlife survival and people’s own well-being.”
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Dismantling the Roadless Rule threatens to disrupt wildlife and water in US https://arstechnica.com/science/2026/08/dismantling-the-roadless-rule-threatens-to-disrupt-wildlife-and-water-in-us/
#UnitedStates #USA #US #environment #RoadlessRule #wildlife #water #USpol #Trump
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Here is where you can comment on the order foisted on the #USFS to road all the roadless areas.
Regulations.gov
https://www.regulations.gov/document/FS-2025-0001-223869 #RoadlessRule
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With the end of the #RoadlessRule, 45 million acres of federal forests could lose protections
https://montanafreepress.org/2026/08/18/end-of-roadless-rule-millions-of-acres-development-logging/ #venality
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About 2,000,000 acres in Oregon >>
[Drumpf] administration moves ahead to end #roadlessrule on national forests
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US Forest Service Moves to Strip Protections from 44M Acres
Agriculture Secretary Rollins proposes rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule, opening 44 million acres of national forest to logging and road construction.
https://pulseofnations.lol/us-forest-service-moves/
#Environment #ForestService #Forestry #Logging #RoadlessRule #Trump #Wildfire
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Honestly, it just keeps getting worse. They are selling off 45 million public lands to development by the highest bidder, and no one is stopping them.
PUBLIC COMMENT PERIOD IS ONLY OPEN FOR 30 DAYS
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BREAKING NEWS🚨 - Press release from the #CenterForBiologicalDiversity
#Trump Moves to Kill #RoadlessRule in Biggest Assault on #ForestProtections in U.S. History
For Immediate Release, August 18, 2026
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration today proposed scrapping the country’s most significant tool for protecting national forests, a move that would open nearly 45 million acres of wild, unfragmented forest across 37 states to road construction, logging and other development.
“Trump is pushing for the largest evisceration of public lands protection in American history and against what Americans want,” said Randi Spivak, public lands policy director at the Center for Biological Diversity. “These are some of the last truly wild forests left in the country, places that shelter endangered wildlife and protect our drinking water. Once you start bulldozing roads for commercial logging and industrial development, there’s no getting them back. Americans love their public lands and want them protected. We’re going to fight like hell to safeguard these wild places for future generations.”
Today’s announcement from the U.S. Agriculture Department will be followed by Wednesday’s release of the draft environmental analysis, giving the public until Sept. 21 to comment on the proposed Roadless Rule recission.
Here are statements from the Center’s regional experts on risks to roadless forests and wildlife across the country:
Northern #Rockies
“Roadless forests are lifelines for grizzly bears and Canada lynx across the northern Rockies,” said Kristine Akland, Northern Rockies director. “Grizzlies need these areas to den and raise cubs and lynx populations are already declining as mature forest habitat disappears. Building roads and allowing logging in these wild areas would make an already difficult situation for these species even worse. People across the region know how vital these intact forests are for wildlife, clean water and recreation, and they overwhelmingly oppose dismantling the Roadless Rule.”
“We’ll fight Trump’s monstrous proposal to gut the Roadless Rule, which would be disastrous for the Tongass,” said Cooper Freeman, Alaska program director. “Punching roads through 9 million acres of intact temperate rainforest would destroy world-class salmon streams. It would open the door for corporations to clearcut irreplaceable, centuries-old Sitka spruce for export overseas. Alaska’s wild places deserve better.”
Southwest
“Roadless forests are where wildlife live,” said Taylor McKinnon, Southwest director. “They’re home to jaguars, Mexican spotted owls, and ocelots, some of the most iconic animals on the continent. Plowing roads into their habitat will bring human-caused wildfires and disturbances that they don’t need and can’t afford. We’ve fought for years to protect the forests and animals of the Southwest and there’s no way we’re giving up now.”
"Roadless areas protect the most beloved and endangered species in the Southeast,” said Will Harlan, Southeast program director. “The South Mills River harbors the country’s strongest hellbender population. Snowbird and Tusquitee Bald shelter endangered Carolina northern flying squirrels, gray bats and longsolid mussel. These forests sustain local economies, protect iconic recreation spots like the Appalachian Trail and safeguard drinking water for millions of people in Charlotte, Atlanta and beyond. Handing them over to loggers and construction crews isn’t sound policy, it’s a tragedy."
Why we need the Roadless Rule:
- Forests free of roads and logging provide crucial and connected habitat for animals and plants, protecting them from noise, pollution and other human-caused harms.
- The forests at risk — from Oregon to North Carolina — are home to scores of threatened and endangered species, including American wolverines, Canada lynx, grizzly bears and northern spotted owls. Rescinding the Roadless Rule would not only push these species closer to extinction but threaten countless others, including Alexander Archipelago wolves and Queen Charlotte goshawks.
- More than 370,000 miles of roads already fragment U.S. national forests, with a maintenance backlog in the billions of dollars. Most wildfires are human caused and occur near roads, with a decades-long, nationwide study finding human-caused wildfires are four times more likely in areas with roads than in roadless forests.
- National forests are the headwaters of many of the country’s major rivers and the largest source of municipal water supplies, serving more than 60 million people in 33 states. The Roadless Rule protects rivers and streams from roads, a major source of water pollution because of erosion and sediment.
#USPol #ProtectTheForest #NationalForests #WildlifeCorridors #WildlifeHabitat #EndangeredSpecies #Greed #CorporateColonialism #StolenLand #LandBack #ForestsAreLife #WaterIsLife
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Please copy and paste into the form on the website of your Senators and Representative. Please share with friends. https://www.congress.gov/contact-us
Dear Senator / Representative:
I oppose undoing the 2001 Roadless Rule, which prohibits road construction, logging, and mining on roughly 60 million acres of public land. This rule must stay in place to protect the homes and businesses adjacent to national forests, to protect the water those communities depend on that flows through the National Forests, and to protect the human-centered logging jobs that have grown since the rule was imposed.
I want you to make a strong stand against this rule change with us.
A look at the past 20 years of wildfires shows that most wildfires start near roads. Roads let in people. People play with fire. The fires burn out of control. After more than 20 years of monitoring, the science is clear -- forest health is improved by fewer roads, not more, and water quality is improved by more forest, not more roads.
While the 2001 #RoadlessRule prohibits large-scale logging, it has an exception for smaller-diameter timber to be cut and sold in areas that are at risk of severe fires. The logging goals of this administration could be achieved by small-diameter timber logging, the kind that actually creates more jobs because it is a human-intensive operation, not mechanized.
Follow the science and retain the 2001 Roadless Rule to preserve our #NationalForests and clean water.
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The Senate Energy Natural Resources Committee voted for Mike Lee’s Wildfire Prevention Act. That means the next stop is for a full Senate vote, and we need to act now to stop it. #RoadlessRule #Wildfire actionnetwork.org/letters/stop...
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The Senate Energy Natural Resources Committee voted for Mike Lee’s Wildfire Prevention Act. That means the next stop is for a full Senate vote, and we need to act now to stop it.
#RoadlessRule #Wildfire
https://actionnetwork.org/letters/stop-mike-lee-from-gutting-the-roadless-rule/We all want to prevent wildfires, but more roads mean more wildfires.
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A pending amendment would completely nullify the National Forest’s #RoadlessRule, which protects tens of millions of acres of public land across the country from new road development.
Call your US Senators to oppose.
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Imagine roadless nature!
Rescinding The Roadless RuleMillions of acres of national forests are set to open up for more logging
"...The U.S. Congress will act soon on a proposal to repeal the Roadless Rule, which was enacted in 2001 and safeguards some 58 million acres of public land in 39 states from new road development." >>
https://www.themeateater.com/conservation/general/congress-to-consider-roadless-rule-rescission"Nearly a year ago, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans to repeal the long-contested 2001 Roadless Rule, which bars road construction on nearly 45 million acres of national forest land...The administration and timber trade groups argue roads provide access for wildfire suppression and forest management work aimed at reducing fire risk." >>
https://lookouteugene-springfield.com/story/environment/2026/05/28/public-rollout-of-roadless-rule-repeal-delayed/"The Roadless Rule also protects taxpayers from shouldering the high costs of building and maintaining roads in the Forest Service system. Rescinding it would expose taxpayers to billions in new liabilities from subsidized roads, money-losing timber sales, increased wildfire risks, and harm to our forest health." >>
https://www.taxpayer.net/energy-natural-resources/house-committee-considers-bill-to-repeal-roadless-rule/
#biodiversity #wildlife #conservation #roads #RoadConstruction #harm #destruction #logging #LoggingIndustry #extractivism #trends #AnglosSphere #forestry #RoadlessRule #conservation -
Sierra Club is collecting comments on the #RoadlessRule.
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One of my proudest professional accomplishments is developing the technological and organizational capacity to actually influence a president's agenda. We used email to apply massive public pressure, enough that Vice-President Gore's inbox had to be turned off for a week. The result: conservationists got the Roadless Rule, in 2001.
Of course, as with all sane things the federal government does, it's under attack by the fascists.
#fascism #conservation #RoadlessRule
https://mountainjournal.org/spiking-roadless-rule-is-mandate-in-search-of-a-problem-experts-say/
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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 -
Tell the Forest Service to keep the existing Roadless Rule!
#RoadlessRule #PublicLands #PublicLandsInPublicHands #USFS #ForestService #Forests
https://www.glaciertwomedicine.org/protect-roadless-lands-badger-two-medicine/ -
Tell the Forest Service to keep the existing Roadless Rule! #RoadlessRule #PublicLands #PublicLandsInPublicHands #USFS #ForestService #Forests www.glaciertwomedicine.org/protect-road...
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Tell the Forest Service to keep the existing Roadless Rule! #RoadlessRule #PublicLands #PublicLandsInPublicHands #USFS #ForestService #Forests https://www.glaciertwomedicine.org/protect-roadless-lands-badger-two-medicine/
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Hi - I’m Ryan, and I love public lands Do you? #publiclandsinpublichands #roadlessrule #publiclands #nps #usda
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Tell the Forest Service to keep the existing Roadless Rule!
#RoadlessRule #PublicLands #PublicLandsInPublicHands #USFS #ForestService #Forests
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Rolling back the roadless rule and expanding logging is such an irresponsible idea. Here’s how it affects us locally.
#RoadlessRulehttps://salish-current.org/2025/09/08/what-proposed-rollback-of-roadless-rule-means-here/
More about national effects and an editable petition prepared by Earthjustice:
https://earthjustice.org/action/protect-forests-from-massive-expansion-of-logging
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Across 36 states and Puerto Rico, the Roadless Rule protects about 30% of all national forest lands — bringing outsized benefits to ourselves and the natural world.
Find roadless areas near you with the Inventoried Roadless Area Explorer.#nature #biodiversity #roadlessrule #resistance #nationalforest #raiseyourvoice #wildlife #wilderness
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https://blackoutthesystem.com/~ #SaveOurForests #RoadlessRule, comment by 9/19
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Stop the Rollback of the Roadless Rule
Federal officials want to roll back the Roadless Rule, a critical safeguard for about 6 million acres of Montana’s undeveloped public lands.
#RoadlessRule #PublicLands #Montana #MTPol #PublicLandsInPublicHands
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Please comment against the repeal of the #RoadlessRule www.federalregister.gov/documents/20... Background earthjustice.org/press/2025/t... #PublicLands #PublicLandsInPublicHands #Wildfire #Wildfires
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Please comment against the repeal of the #RoadlessRule
https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2025/08/29/2025-16581/special-areas-roadless-area-conservation-national-forest-system-landsBackground
https://earthjustice.org/press/2025/trump-administration-attempt-to-repeal-roadless-rule-met-with-widespread-opposition
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Public comment period open on Trump administration’s proposed repeal of Roadless Rule
Indigenous leaders launch a two-week protest, including rally in Bellingham
#PublicLands #RoadlessRule #PublicLandsInPublicHands
https://www.cascadiadaily.com/2025/sep/02/public-comment-period-open-on-trump-administrations-proposed-repeal-of-roadless-rule/