Thursday, August 20, 2026

Trump administration to open untouched national forests to logging : NPR

"Before the roadless rule, we would build roads into areas and we would have money-losing timber sales that would cost taxpayers billions of dollars," said Steve Ellis, president of the non-partisan watchdog group, Taxpayers for Common Sense. "If you repeal this, it's just going to add to an already $6 billion [U.S. Forest Service] road maintenance backlog."…

 https://www.npr.org/2026/08/18/nx-s1-5936495/trump-administration-moves-to-open-untouched-national-forests-to-logging


 

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