Sen. Martin Heinrich wants to keep in place a ban on building new roads or timber harvesting across 45 million acres of national forest land.

"When the Trump administration advocates for eliminating the roadless rule, they are talking about endangering some of the last great wild game habitat on our national forests," the New Mexico Democrat said during a speech Wednesday on the Senate floor.

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