Trump admin moves to allow logging and construction in national forests

The USDA, which oversees the U.S. Forest Service, filed the proposed rule and corresponding draft environmental impact statement in the Federal Register on Tuesday.

Some experts warn roads could actually increase the threat of wildfires — partly because roads bring people. Nearly 85% of wildfires begin with human activity.

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 da

The move to repeal the ‘roadless rule” would pave the way for road construction and logging in nearly 45 million acres of untouched back country.