The Trump administration will strip protections that prevent logging on nearly 59 million acres of National Forest System lands, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced on Monday.

Rollins made the announcement at a meeting of the Western Governors’ Association in New Mexico.

In a press release, the Trump administration described the current rule, which prevents road building logging and mining in large swaths of national forest, as “overly restrictive.”

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