In an extreme overreach that will destroy treasured national forests, the Trump administration today announced plans to rescind the Roadless Rule, a popular, science-based provision limiting commercial logging and associated road construction in undisturbed landscapes. This will allow heavy machinery to wreak havoc on some 58.5 million acres of national forest lands thus far spared from the horrors of industrial extraction.
“In the same breath, Sec. of Agriculture Rollins calls one of the best ideas from this century for protecting intact forests ‘absurd’ and labels the deployment of a legion of chainsaws and heavy equipment ‘sustainable,’” said Sarah McMillan, Wildlands and Wildlife Program director at the Western Environmental Law Center. “The success and popularity of the Roadless Rule is off the charts. The proposed, unconscionable public land sales in the reconciliation bill combined with this rescission betray a singular goal of America’s current rulers: Reap as much private profit as humanly possible in four years no matter the generational cost to the American people and the natural world. This would be a tragedy, and the Western Environmental Law Center will fight it.”
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Sarah McMillan, Western Environmental Law Center, 406-549-3895, gro.w1750768035alnre1750768035tsew@1750768035nalli1750768035mcm1750768035
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