FOR PLANNING PURPOSESWASHINGTON, D.C. -- Members of Congress, a former public lands management official,, and a Tribal president will participate in a webinar Monday on the proposed rescission of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
Washington, D.C. – The U.S. Department of Agriculture today opened an official rulemaking process to rescind the Roadless Rule, an extremely popular conservation policy enacted in 2001 to protect more than 45 million acres of pristine lands in national forests across 36 states and Puerto Rico. The longstanding rule generally protects against new roadbuilding for logging and oil-and-gas drilling in unfragmented, backcountry forestlands that have never been disturbed by major development.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Senate held a hearing to review the Trump administration’s proposed reorganization of a critical federal agency.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Wednesday, the House Natural Resources Committee is scheduled to consider two bills that would significantly undermine forest protection efforts in the United States.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – A major national gathering of forestry professionals, conservationists, researchers, and Tribal Nations, has overwhelmingly voted to recognize the importance of America’s National Forests and recommend policies to adequately invest in protecting these forests, including old-growth trees.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the Trump administration moved to gut protections for nearly 60 million acres of national forests across the country.
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Yesterday, Donald Trump issued an executive order that adds more burden and uncertainty to federal land management agencies while laying groundwork for further reduction of protections for forests.
President Trump issued an executive order this weekend seeking to ramp up logging across federal forests, which span nearly 280 million acres.
Missoula, MT - Today, a coalition of conservation groups participated in the first day of a three-day meeting held by the U.S. Forest Service intended to reach a resolution on objections the agency received in response to the highly-controversial revised Nez Perce-Clearwater Land Management Plan, also known as a Forest Plan. At the meeting, conservationists decried the agency’s failure to offer meaningful changes in response to the unprecedented level of public participation demanding the revised plan better safeguard wildlife and habitat.
Conservation groups sued the U.S. Forest Service today for failing to protect streams in the Cherry River watershed from the harmful effects of coal hauling in the Monongahela National Forest.