Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests

[In It to Win It]

NYT - Gift Link

The Trump administration said on Monday that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans to repeal the 2001 “roadless rule” that had preserved the wild nature of nearly a third of the land in national forests in the United States. Ms. Rollins said the regulation was outdated.

“Once again, President Trump is removing absurd obstacles to common-sense management of our natural resources by rescinding the overly restrictive roadless rule,” Ms. Rollins said in a statement. She said the repeal “opens a new era of consistency and sustainability for our nation’s forests.”

Environmental groups said the plan could destroy some of America’s untouched landscapes and promised to challenge it in court.

The unspoiled land in question includes Tongass National Forest in Alaska, North America’s largest temperate rainforest; Reddish Knob in the Shenandoah Mountains, one of the highest points in Virginia; and millions of acres of the Frank Church-River of No Return Wilderness in Idaho.

[msongs]

1. does he get a fee of a dollar for every tree cut down? nt

[sinkingfeeling]

2. "Anything for a buck" is this regime's governing motto.

[jeffreyi]

3. Evil f***s.

May they all be out of their jobs, very soon.

[Deuxcents]

4. How does road construction and development sustain our natural resources?

This is some kind of double speak 💩

[Bayard]

5. OMG!

This has nothing to do with, "consistency and sustainability for our nation’s forests." Its all about greed and selling out our heritage, our forests, the Earth. The only thing its consistent with is trump's war on the environment. Take a hard look at that picture. Can't you just picture a McDonalds sign there.

Makes me physically ill. I hate this man, and all the harm he is doing to this country and its people. Hate him. Hate him. Hate him.