Trump administration moves to end roadless rule protecting 44M acres of national forest

Potential long-term impacts on indigenous communities dependent on forest ecosystems and future generations' access to pristine natural areas.

For more than two decades, a quiet boundary has held — 44 million acres of national forest kept whole, unroaded, and largely undisturbed by the machinery of extraction. Now the Trump administration moves to erase that boundary, reopening a long-settled question about what public land is ultimately for. The roadless rule, born in 2001 from a belief that some places deserve to remain intact, faces its most serious threat yet — and with it, so do the old-growth ecosystems, indigenous communities, and future generations who have lived and planned within its shelter.

Trump administration moves to end roadless rule protecting 44M acres of national forest

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