For the past 25 years, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule has kept vital forests and grassland safe from bulldozers, saws, excavators and drilling equipment. But now the more-than 58 million acres of pristine national forest it protects are at risk of being exploited for profit. 

In June, the Trump Administration announced its intent to rescind the 2001 law, a hard-fought policy that prohibited the building or reconstruction of roads and timber harvesting in certain areas in national forests. At the time of its signing, it was the most commented-on rule in U.S. history, with 95% in support of protecting forests and grasslands from development. Since enactment, it has become one of the country’s most consequential conservation policies ever. 

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The U.S. Department of Agriculture, which oversees the U.S. Forest Service is attempting to paint rescinding the Roadless Rule as a way to protect us from wildfire and encourage responsible forest management.

We should know better than to take the administration's statements at face value

During Trump's first term, he shrunk the Bear Ears monument citing "federal overreach.” However, after this decision was announced, leaked emails revealed........

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