by Kevin Hood | Apr 19, 2026 | Sound Off
The current administration has embraced the tech-bro mantra: “Move fast and break things.” Here’s a quick overview: The Forest Service is currently working on new rules to reduce public engagement in environmental reviews and rescind protection for 45 million acres of...
by Guest Author | Jan 28, 2026 | Sound Off
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...
by Guest Author | Nov 4, 2025 | Sound Off
Forest Service employees have endured a tumultuous nine months since Donald Trump returned to the White House. With promises to “shatter the Deep State” and downsize the federal workforce, the president appointed an Office of Management and Budget director who said...
by Guest Author | Sep 3, 2025 | Sound Off, Writers On The Range
by Mitch Friedman, Writers on the Range It didn’t get much notice, but President Trump has turbocharged logging on public lands in ways that are likely to increase dangerous wildfire. Inside the “Big Beautiful Bill” that became law this summer, a provision directs the...
by Andy Stahl | Aug 5, 2025 | Sound Off
This year, the American people made their values unmistakably clear: our public lands are not for sale. In an era when billionaires treat mountaintops like private playgrounds and corporations eye our forests for profit, one might wonder whether the notion of land...
