Trump administration moves to lift roadless rule protections on national forests
The administration is moving to end roadless rule protections, potentially opening millions of acres of untouched national forests to commercial logging.
- Administration initiates move to open untouched national forests to logging
- Action aims to remove roadless rule protections across millions of acres
Sources
- NPR — Trump administration moves to open untouched national forests to logging
- Phys.org — US moves to open vast tracts of pristine forests to logging
- The Hill — Trump administration moves to open up logging in national forests
- Al Jazeera — Trump administration moves to end rule protecting swaths of forest land
- The Independent — Trump moves to end ‘roadless rule’ that protects millions of forest acres
- The Guardian — Trump administration to rescind rule protecting old-growth forests
- The Hill — Trump moves to strip protections from 44M acres of national forest