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Trump Proposes Repealing Roadless Rule, Opening 45 Million Acres

8/19/2026

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President Donald Trump advanced a plan to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness to roads and logging, proposing to repeal the 2001 roadless rule.
The U.S. Forest Service intends to drop protections for nine million undeveloped Tongass acres and millions of other pristine wilderness acres nationwide.
More than a dozen lawsuits have failed to overturn the rule despite the push to boost logging and thin forests to cut wildfire risk.

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President Donald Trump advanced a plan to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness to roads and logging, proposing to repeal the 2001 roadless rule.
The U.S. Forest Service intends to drop protections for nine million undeveloped Tongass acres and millions of other pristine wilderness acres nationwide.
More than a dozen lawsuits have failed to overturn the rule despite the push to boost logging and thin forests to cut wildfire risk.