The Feds Want to Scrap the Roadless Rule, Opening 4.4 Million Acres of California Forest

Some of Northern California’s wildest backcountry could soon be open to chainsaws and bulldozers. The U.S. Forest Service formally proposed scrapping the Roadless Rule this week, a 2001 regulation that has kept road building and commercial logging out of nearly 45 million acres of national forest for a quarter century. What’s at stake in California? … The post The Feds Want to Scrap the Roadless…