Administration Moves to Open National Forests to Roadbuilding, Drilling, and Logging

Source: www.motherjones.com · Section: politics · Bias: Left · Published: Wed, 19 Aug 2026 19:34:42 GMT

This story was originally published by the Guardian and is reproduced here as part of the Climate Desk collaboration. The Trump administration said on Tuesday it plans to rescind the “roadless rule” that has protected old-growth forests in the US for 25 years, potentially opening up almost 45 million acres of national forests to road construction, drilling, and logging. Conservationists had feared […]

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