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.
The United States Department of Agriculture is nearing a full repeal of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule that protects millions of acres of virgin forestland nationwide. In Virginia, if the rule is repealed it would open up an estimated 400,000 acres of forest, largely across the Shenandoah Valley region, to development. The Trump Administration […]
MONTANA — A federal proposal to roll back the Roadless Rule opened a new debate over how national forest land in Montana should be managed.
The Trump administration will move ahead with plans to end more than 25 years of sweeping protections for tens of millions of wild, federally managed acres across the U.S. Brooke Rollins, head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on Tuesday filed a rule to rescind “in its entirety” the national 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, […]
I've spent the last several weeks doing something I don't enjoy: reading through comment threads, forwarded emails, and private messages where members of this party have torn into one another.
Opinion: The Alliance for the Wild Rockies has taken the Park Service to court to require it to use the best available science and stop the pointless slaughter of our national mammal.
Seven long years ago the Alliance for the Wild Rockies, with the support of local residents, took the Forest Service to federal court to halt the Hanna Flats logging, road-building, and burning project on the Idaho Panhandle National Forest in northern Idaho. Through a long and winding legal saga the good news — for grizzly bears, old-growth forests, and the local populace which strongly opposed the deforestation — is that a federal appeals court just ruled for the Alliance.
If you've felt overwhelmed lately, you're not alone. The headlines move fast, the stakes feel high, and it's easy to feel like none of it is in your hands. Here's the truth: some of it isn’t. But most of it is — and that's where Montana Democrats are putting our energy this week.
As smoke from wildfires in Canada billowed across the central and eastern parts of the United States, President Trump once again demonstrated his utter ignorance of wildfires.
Public lands are where our families hunt, fish, hike and camp. They protect the headwaters that supply our communities, provide habitat for wildlife and support outfitters, guides and small businesses across the state. That is why the federal government’s effort to repeal the Roadless Rule should concern every Montanan.
