What are the implications of Trump rescinding the roadless rule in our national forests?
For those who don’t know, the roadless rule was a rule that prevented development of any kind on 59 million acres of forest service land. Most of these areas have never been logged (given that there isn’t logging infrastructure in place ie roadless).
Roadless areas are a different distinction than national parks or designated wilderness areas, which are safe (for now), but these 59 million acres of identified, but not formally-designated, wilderness roadless areas often served as de facto buffers around the already formally protected park and wilderness zones.
Given that these areas have never been logged on or developed, they hold the nation’s last bastions of old growth forest and virgin wilderness outside of the formally protected areas.
What will be the implications of this once trump and his corporate lackeys start building roads, lumber mills and mines in our pristine wilderness?
>hurdur fearmongering
The roadless rule was rescinded days after mike lee’s land sale bill was shot down. They’re still going to develop the lands, and sell them later on.