Trump Admin To Lift Logging Limits In National Forests
"The Trump administration plans to remove restrictions on logging across more than 40 million acres of national forest, the Agriculture Department said."
Source: E&E News, 08/19/2026
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Killing Roadless Rule Could Make It Harder To Delist Yellowstone Grizzlies
"The rule banning new roads in some forests protects prime bear habitat and was part of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s justification for its failed attempt to delist grizzlies in 2017."
Source: Inside Climate News, 12/23/2025
"Outcry As Trump Plots More Roads And Logging In US Forests"
"Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment"
Source: Guardian, 10/07/2025
"Trump Administration Presses Rollback Of ‘Roadless Rule’ On Wild Lands"
"The Trump administration on Wednesday took formal steps to rescind a decades-old rule that protects 58.5 million acres of wild areas in national forests, including 4.4 million acres in California."
Source: LA Times, 08/28/2025
Huge Public Land Sale Stripped from Senate Bill — For Now
"On the day the Trump administration announced it was rescinding the national forest roadless rule, the Senate parliamentarian said a proposal to sell millions of acres of public lands cannot go through without 60 votes in the chamber."
Source: Inside Climate News, 06/26/2025
"US Forest Service to Repeal Roadless Rule to Promote Logging"
"The US Forest Service will begin the process to repeal the agency’s 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects millions of acres of national forest land from logging nationwide, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Monday."
Source: Bloomberg Environment, 06/24/2025
"Trump Reverses Biden On Natural Resource Protections In Alaska"
"The partisan divide over natural resource protections took a hard shift to the right with the inauguration of President Trump, who reversed moves the Biden administration took to protect natural resources in Alaska from mining and energy development and hunting bears with baits."
Source: National Parks Traveler, 01/23/2025
Can Roadless Areas Help Stem the Extinction Crisis in the U.S.?
"A new study looked at a group of forest lands that hold big conservation potential but aren’t adequately protected."
Source: The Revelator, 01/07/2022
Biden USFS To Propose Road Ban On Much Of Alaska Tongass National Forest
"For two decades, Republicans and Democrats have fought over whether to ban roads on more than 9 million acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Now, the Biden administration aims to settle the question once and for all."
Source: Washington Post, 11/19/2021
"Biden Plans to Restore Alaskan Forest Protections Stripped Under Trump"
"The Biden administration plans to restore environmental protections to Tongass National Forest in Alaska, one of the world’s largest intact temperate rain forests, that had been stripped away by former President Donald J. Trump."
Source: NYTimes, 06/14/2021
