"The rule banning new roads in some forests protects prime bear habitat and was part of the Fish and Wildlife Service’s justification for its failed attempt to delist grizzlies in 2017."
"Critics say move to axe Bill Clinton’s ‘roadless rule’ that protected key old-growth forests will be devastating to environment"
"The Trump administration on Wednesday took formal steps to rescind a decades-old rule that protects 58.5 million acres of wild areas in national forests, including 4.4 million acres in California."
"On the day the Trump administration announced it was rescinding the national forest roadless rule, the Senate parliamentarian said a proposal to sell millions of acres of public lands cannot go through without 60 votes in the chamber."
"The US Forest Service will begin the process to repeal the agency’s 2001 Roadless Rule, which protects millions of acres of national forest land from logging nationwide, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said Monday."
"The partisan divide over natural resource protections took a hard shift to the right with the inauguration of President Trump, who reversed moves the Biden administration took to protect natural resources in Alaska from mining and energy development and hunting bears with baits."
"A new study looked at a group of forest lands that hold big conservation potential but aren’t adequately protected."
"For two decades, Republicans and Democrats have fought over whether to ban roads on more than 9 million acres of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. Now, the Biden administration aims to settle the question once and for all."
"The Biden administration plans to restore environmental protections to Tongass National Forest in Alaska, one of the world’s largest intact temperate rain forests, that had been stripped away by former President Donald J. Trump."
"A coalition of Alaska Native tribes and environmentalists filed suit on Wednesday challenging a new Trump administration policy that opens vast swaths of the largest U.S. national forest to logging, mining and other commercial development."
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[2] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/22122025/roadless-rule-protects-yellowstone-grizzly-bears/
[3] https://www.sej.org/headlines/outcry-trump-plots-more-roads-and-logging-us-forests
[4] https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/trump-logging-forests
[5] https://www.sej.org/headlines/trump-administration-presses-rollback-roadless-rule-wild-lands
[6] https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2025-08-27/trump-administration-presses-rollback-roadless-rule-wild-forestland
[7] https://www.sej.org/headlines/huge-public-land-sale-stripped-senate-bill-now
[8] https://insideclimatenews.org/news/24062025/public-land-sale-stripped-from-senate-bill-but-federal-land-assault-continues/
[9] https://www.sej.org/headlines/us-forest-service-repeal-roadless-rule-promote-logging
[10] https://news.bloomberglaw.com/environment-and-energy/us-forest-service-to-repeal-roadless-rule-to-promote-logging
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[12] https://www.nationalparkstraveler.org/2025/01/trump-reverses-biden-natural-resource-protections-alaska
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[14] https://therevelator.org/roadless-conservation-habitat/
[15] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-usfs-propose-road-ban-much-alaska-tongass-national-forest
[16] https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/2021/11/18/tongass-national-forest-roadless-rule/
[17] https://www.sej.org/headlines/biden-plans-restore-alaskan-forest-protections-stripped-under-trump
[18] https://www.nytimes.com/2021/06/11/climate/tongass-biden-climate.html
[19] https://www.sej.org/headlines/lawsuit-challenges-trumps-lifting-roadless-rule-alaskas-tongass
[20] https://www.reuters.com/article/us-environment-alaska-forest/lawsuit-challenges-trumps-lifting-of-roadless-rule-in-alaskas-tongass-forest-idUSKBN28Y06L
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