Feds takes next step in removing protections from 6.4 million acres of Montana’s national forests
The Trump administration announced Wednesday that the U.S. Department of Agriculture has taken the next step in repealing a rule protecting nearly 60 million acres of national forest land from logging and development — more than 10% of which is in Montana.
The 2001 Roadless Rule prohibits the construction of road and harvest of timber on inventoried roadless areas — roughly 30% of all Forest Service land — across the county preserving intact ecosystems across huge swaths of federal public lands in western states.
Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins said in a press release that rescinding the rule will bring “common sense management” to national forest land.
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