US moves to open vast tracts of pristine forests to logging

President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday proposed a rule change that would open 44 million acres of wild, undisturbed forest for road construction and logging.US moves to open vast tracts of pristine forests to loggingThe proposal would rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, enacted in the final days of the Clinton administration, which barred development across vast areas of public forests and grasslands designated as "inventoried roadless areas."In a statement announcing the move, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the rule had prevented the Forest Service from carrying out vital management work that would curb wildfires."Across the country, we've watched preventable conditions overgrown stands, insect outbreaks and disease turn healthy landscapes into tinderb