The people of America have benefitted from the Roadless Rule established by the U.S. Forest Service in 2001. It does not allow road construction and timber harvesting on 58.5 million acres of inventoried roadless areas on National Forest System lands.

This year U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans to rescind the Roadless Rule under the guise of fire protection. Her announcement plays into the hands of the Trump administration’s plan to drastically increase logging – again under the guise of preventing destruction from severe forest fires.

That argument is bogus because logged areas burn more intensely than intact forests . Why? Under some fire prevention practices, trees and understory are removed , thereby creating hotter, windier, and drier cond

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