by FSEEE | Aug 23, 2026 | Roadless Rule
Comment Now to Protect the Crown Jewels of our National Forests. The U.S. Department of Agriculture published a proposed rule Aug. 18 to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule in its entirety, stripping protection from 44.7 million acres of the wildest...
by FSEEE | Aug 22, 2026 | Roadless Rule
The USDA is accepting public comments about rescinding the Roadless Rule until 11:59 p.m. Eastern Daylight Time, September 21, 2026. Click here to read the proposed rule change and to comment. As a staunch National Forest advocate, FSEEE is working to identify and...
by FSEEE | Jun 18, 2026 | Dispatch, In the News, Roadless Rule
A new report in Biological Conservation coauthored by David Mildrexler, Logan Berner, Beverly Law, and Mary Booth concludes, “The justifications for rescinding the Roadless Rule are fiscally misguided and ecologically flawed.” The rescission, they write,...
by Kevin Hood | Jun 10, 2026 | Action Alert, Roadless Rule
JUNE 10, 2026 UPDATE: The backroom ambush on our national forests has cleared its first hurdle. This morning, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee voted 11–9 along strict party lines to pass the Wildfire Prevention Act (S. 140) and advance it to the full...
by Guest Author | Jan 28, 2026 | Sound Off, Roadless Rule
by Mike Dombeck, Dale Bosworth, Tom Tidwell, and Vicki Christiansen for The Hill. Twenty-five years ago, the Forest Service adopted one of the boldest conservation measures in American history, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The National Forest System already...
