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Trump administration moves closer to rescinding the Roadless Rule
Bozeman

Trump administration moves closer to rescinding the Roadless Rule

  • Leah Veress Chronicle Staff Writer

The Trump administration has filed a proposed rule to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, a regulation that restricts road construction, road reconstruction and timber harvesting on roughly 45 million acres of National Forest System land across the country, including approximately 6.4 million acres in Montana.

Minnesota

Trump cut Forest Service funding for wildfire mitigation — and then the Northland started burning

  • Brian Martucci

The U.S. Forest Service lost more than 100 Minnesota employees and delayed $10 million in grant funding for wildfire mitigation in the Superior National Forest during the chaotic first year of President Trump’s second term.  Democratic elected officials say those setbacks left Minnesota ill-equipped to face the fires that have burned more than 60,000 acres […]