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The largest storehouse of America's remaining still-wild-but-not-permanently-protected forestlands would be opened up to logging and roadbuilding in the wake of a recent Trump administration announcement.

Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins has unveiled her department's intention to rescind the highly popular Roadless Area Conservation Rule of 2001, which safeguards 58.4 million acres of wilderness-quality national forest lands from a threatening array of extractive uses.

Tell your members of Congress to vigorously oppose this senseless and destructive action, which would represent a giant leap backward in efforts to resolve the climate and biodiversity crises.

California's share of the Roadless Rule-shielded forests comes to 4.4 million acres—an area almost six times larger than Yosemite National Park.

Keeping existing forests standing— proforestation—is the most cost-effective and readily available means of drawing down excess atmospheric carbon and storing it away in vegetation and soils.

Forests Forever played a key role in the Roadless Rule from its beginning, generating thousands of letters and postcards in support of it in 2001. We organized grassroots opposition to its repeal by Pres. George W. Bush in 2005 and were one of the co-plaintiffs in a successful 2006 lawsuit that overturned the Bush repeal.

Scroll to the RESOURCES link at the bottom of this alert for more on the Roadless Rule, including interactive maps.

We also have an excellent countermeasure to support—the Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2025, which would provide the impermanent rule with a higher level of resilience as a statute.

Urge your elected officials to co-sponsor the Roadless Area Conservation Act and fight against the administration's plan to rescind the Roadless Rule!

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