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.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The public was forced to navigate five separate comment processes across three federal agencies as the Department of the Interior launched a sweeping review of longstanding policies protecting millions of acres of America’s wildest public lands.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Recent reporting has raised serious questions about Interior Secretary Doug Burgum's leadership of the Department of the Interior, describing an agency plagued by dysfunction, rampant staff departures, secrecy, and a management culture that has left career employees demoralized and sidelined.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Sierra Club and its North Carolina Chapter condemn a recent ICE operation at Wilson Creek Recreation Area in Pisgah National Forest that resulted in 13 arrests.
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.
LAS VEGAS— The Center for Biological Diversity and the Sierra Club Toiyabe Chapter today filed an administrative appeal challenging federal approval of the Townsite Data Center in Boulder City, Nevada.
Removal of buffer exposes communities and sacred landscapes to oil and gas extraction
Salt Lake City – The Trump administration today signed an executive order intended to dismantle Southern Utah’s national monuments, Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante. It is the administration’s latest effort in a long line of attacks that threaten cherished public lands.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — Today, news media outlets have begun reporting that Donald Trump is expected to sign an executive order as soon as Monday, July 13 to dismantle the Bears Ears and Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monuments.