Given Congress’ recent attempt to sell public lands, it could be easy to overlook the Forest Service’s recommendation last ...

The Trump administration says a formal notice is on the way about removing protections from these public lands. Here's what to know.

Roadless forests in Utah are far more valuable for fish and wildlife habitat and recreation than for timber production.

The rule, first established in 2001 by the then-outgoing Clinton administration, allows the federal agency to designate “inventoried roadless areas” within the National Forest System.

More states should implement roadless area regulations that are tailored to their distinct landscapes and ecological characteristics.

The Trump administration plans to rescind the Roadless Rule and reopen the Los Padres National Forest to industrial logging and road-building.

The U.S. Department of Food and Agriculture recently announced it would try to roll back the “roadless rule,” a decades-old policy that prevents road construction and logging on nearly 4 ...

In a sweeping rollback of longstanding forest protections, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins has announced the agency’s intent to eliminate the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The ...

The Trump administration soon could open up thousands of acres of South Carolina's "roadless" federal forestland to new road construction. U.S. Department of Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins ...

“The 2001 Roadless Rule establishes prohibitions on road construction, road reconstruction, and timber harvesting on 58.5 million acres of inventoried roadless areas on National Forest System lands.

What To Know The Roadless Area Conservation Rule, enacted in 2001, had prohibited road construction and timber harvest on approximately 58.5 million acres of designated "roadless" national forests.