Rescinding Roadless Rule is not a magic bullet
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins last week laid out her case for why the federal Roadless Rule that protects some 58 million acres of Forest Service land should be rescinded.
The Clinton-era law, she argued, has trapped the Forest Service "in a cycle of neglect and devastation" causing rampant wildfires and stymieing valuable timber harvests.
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