Hailed as one of America’s most successful conservation measures, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule protects drinking water, wildlife habitat, and world-class recreation opportunities across 58.5 million acres of national forests across the country - and the Trump Administration just announced they plan to rescind it.
The Administration announced their intent to repeal the Roadless Rule in June 2025. This jeopardizes nearly 60 million acres of underdeveloped, backcountry, public land.
These protected landscapes include old forests, wetlands, canyons and other undeveloped lands that are critical to our nation's ecological health. Because they are not fragmented by roads, these undeveloped forests provide habitat for many imperiled species such as California condors, grizzly bears and wolves, native salmon and trout, migratory songbirds, and more.
On Aug. 27, Secretary Rollins initiated the process, kicking off a public comment period lasting from Aug 29 - Sept 19.
Since the second Trump Administration began, we have seen significant interest in public lands. This has included following the decimation of public lands management agencies, including rangers across the National Park System; public outrage at Trump’s timber executive order and wildfire executive order; and, most notably, overwhelming bipartisan reactions to proposed sale of public lands across the west. In order to win, we must continue to build the wave of public engagement for sensible land management. To see the areas at risk, please view this map from Outdoor Alliance.
We need your help today!
We must fully engage in the administrative public process – though we know that process is not designed for easy or robust public engagement. The original Roadless Rule garnered 1.6 million public comments with 97% supporting.
Again, we must show up with overwhelming support and make ourselves impossible to ignore.
Submit your public comment today at this link.
The deadline for public comments is September 19th!