Salt Lake City – Today, the U.S. Department of Agriculture announced its latest step to eliminate protections under the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, claiming the move is necessary to reduce wildfire risk and expand forest management. Since the Forest Service created the Roadless Rule in 2001, it has protected undeveloped roadless areas across the country.
Today, the Trump administration announced it is repealing the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This measure conserves more than 58 million acres of National Forest lands by preventing road building, hardrock mining, oil and gas and industrial logging, and was one of the most popular rules in U.S. history after an extensive public process to generate more than 1.6 million comments.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Yesterday, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted to advance legislation that would eliminate the Roadless Area Conservation Rule after Republicans attached a last-minute amendment to the previously bipartisan Wildfire Prevention Act. The amendment passed on a party-line vote and would strip protections from millions of acres of roadless national forest lands.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Donald Trump signed off on a controversial proposal to allow toxic sulfide mining in the watershed of one of the country’s most visited wilderness areas.Trump signed a Congressional Review Act Resolution overturning a 20-year ban on mining in the Superior National Forest in Minnesota, which contains the headwaters of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The U.S. Senate voted to approve a controversial proposal, backed by the Trump Administration, to allow toxic sulfide mining in the watershed of one of the country’s most visited wilderness areas.
WHATThe U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is expected to soon release a draft environmental impact statement (DEIS) for their plan to rescind the Roadless Area Conversation Rule.Enacted in 2001 with broad bipartisan support, the “Roadless Rule” conserves 45 million acres of national forest land.
WASHINGTON — The Trump administration today finalized rules to fast-track approval of logging, mining, drilling, road building and other projects in America’s national forests by eliminating decades-old public participation requirements for environmental reviews. The new U.S. Department of Agriculture rules also ax public notice and comment on federal bird flu responses and wildlife-killing activities.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today marked the end of a short two-week public comment period on post-fire recovery actions in national forests.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition, and Forestry held a markup on a controversial forestry bill. The bill was reported out of committee with a vote of 18-5.