Trump administration advances plan to rescind protections for nearly 45 million wild acres

By: Alex Baumhardt

Outlets: Daily Montanan

Published: August 19, 2026

Words: 1,088

Last Updated: 2 months ago

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The Trump administration will move ahead with plans to end more than 25 years of sweeping protections for tens of millions of wild, federally managed acres across the U.S.

Brooke Rollins, head of the U.S. Department of Agriculture, on Tuesday filed a rule to rescind “in its entirety” the national 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which prohibits road construction, logging and mining on about 30% of lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service, mostly in …

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