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More than four million acres of California's wildest publicly owned forests would be thrown open to logging and roadbuilding under the latest aggressive action by the Trump Administration.
Public comment has now begun on an effort to rescind the highly popular and protective Roadless Area Conservation Rule of 2001. The deadline is just over two weeks away!
The Rule has protected over 58 million acres of national forests from logging and other destructive impacts, including an area in California almost six times the size of Yosemite National Park.
Send in your Comment today to stop this attack on wild forests!
Wildfire risk reduction is among the many safeguards the Rule provides. Forest roadbuilding promotes wildfire through drying and through introducing flammable weeds and grasses.
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 broad-based grassroots opposition to the rule's 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.
The Roadless Rule garnered 1.6 million public comments at its birth, the overwhelming majority of them favorable.
The official comment period ends Sept. 19. But to take no chances of missing the deadline we will be batching your submitted comments the day before. So please submit your Comments right away!
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Paul Hughes
Executive Director
Forests Forever
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RESOURCES →
- Here is an up-to-date interactive map of all Roadless Rule areas in the U.S., including areas covered by variants of the Rule in Alaska, Colorado and Idaho.
- To view maps click on "California" under the U.S. Forest Service's inventory of Roadless Rule areas by state.
- Here's Forests Forever's latest e-Alert on the Roadless Rule recission effort by the Trump administration.
- An upbeat alternative to rescinding the Roadless Rule is to codify its protections by enacting the Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2025— H.R. 3930 and its Senate companion S.2042.