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.
AUSTIN, Texas — Following widespread bipartisan outrage, Donald Trump’s U.S. Customs and Border Protection Commissioner Rodney Scott announced Monday that the agency is temporarily pausing all construction activity in Big Bend National Park as he visits the site this week. Scott did not say how long the pause would last or commit to canceling the project.
AUSTIN, TX — Federal contractors moved heavy equipment into Big Bend National Park earlier this week and began bulldozing new roads Wednesday, putting into motion the first use of sweeping federal border-construction waiver authority inside a National Park.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — On Friday, the Advisory Council on Historic Preservation voted to advance changes that would weaken federal oversight of construction projects affecting historic sites and culturally important landscapes.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, Sierra Club representatives testified before the National Capital Planning Commission in opposition to the Trump administration’s proposal to construct a 250-foot arch on National Park Service land at Memorial Circle, adjacent to Arlington National Cemetery. During the hearing, the representatives urged the Commission to reject the proposal, arguing it would permanently alter one of the nation’s most significant commemorative landscapes.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — One year after the opening of the immigration detention facility known as “Alligator Alcatraz,” Sierra Club is marking the facility’s recently announced closure as a major victory for the Everglades. It also marks an important milestone for the grassroots movement that came together to defend one of the world’s most important ecosystems from a cruel and damaging use of public lands.
Washington, DC – Today, the Sierra Club released more than 35,000 comments submitted to the National Park Service in response to Donald Trump’s efforts to whitewash history on public lands via the executive order “Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History”.
WASHINGTON — Under Executive Order 14253, a directive to scrub non-English language from National Park Service websites, and numerous
Bill aimed at stopping Trump administration’s efforts to erase Native American history on public lands
WASHINGTON, DC — The Trump administration announced today that it has withdrawn its nominee, Scott Socha, to lead the National Park Service.
Socha is an executive at Delaware North, a hospitality company that contracts with NPS to provide services at major parks like Grand Canyon and Yellowstone including lodging, dining, and retail. He had no government experience.
In response to the news, Gerry James, deputy director of the Sierra Club’s Outdoors For All campaign, issued the following statement:
Frankfort, KY —The Sierra Club and a coalition of more than 25 Kentucky organizations have sent a letter urging Governor Andy Beshear, Kentucky's congressional delegation, and other state leaders to oppose Executive Order 14253 and Secretarial Order 3431, Restoring Truth and Sanity to American History.