Defend our forests from the administration’s chopping block

The Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) wants to gut the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Their scheme would open up tens of millions of acres of our national forests to destructive logging, drilling, and road building. Make your voice heard in opposition to the Trump administration’s push to chop down our forests.

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Tell the Trump administration not to open up protected U.S. forests to destructive logging and road building.

Nina Riggio for NRDC

The Trump administration’s U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) wants to gut the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Their scheme would open up tens of millions of acres of our national forests to destructive logging, drilling, and road building — including iconic public lands from California’s Tahoe National Forest to Alaska’s Tongass National Forest to the Appalachian Trail.

Make your voice heard in opposition to the Trump administration’s push to chop down our forests.

Gutting the Roadless Rule would endanger wildlife, threaten clean water resources, imperil recreation areas, and worsen climate change. Logging and roadbuilding would damage these breathtaking forests, their wildlife, and communities who rely on them for generations to come.

And this is just one of the threats from the Trump administration to give away our public lands and waters — all to make corporations richer. The administration is already advancing its plan to lease lands for oil and gas drilling in Alaska’s Western Arctic and in the Arctic National Wildlife Refuge’s Coastal Plain, sacred to the Gwich’in people and vital habitat for polar bears, caribou, migratory birds, and more.

Act now to save our forests from being axed.

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Subject Keep the Roadless Area Conservation Rule and protect forests

Dear USDA Secretary Rollins,

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I oppose your plan to roll back the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. I urge you to reverse course and save forests.

Opening up tens of millions of acres of U.S. forests in cherished public lands like California’s Tahoe National Forest and important segments of the Appalachian Trail to destructive logging, drilling, and road building is reckless.

Gutting the Roadless Rule would risk more polluted drinking water for over 60 million Americans, increased flooding, and more landslides. It would imperil recreation areas where people hunt, hike, camp, fish, climb, and paddle. It endangers irreplaceable habitat for iconic animals. And it would jeopardize the integrity of incomparable places like Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest and the nation’s largest old-growth forest. If anything, the Rule should be strengthened to better protect all the extraordinary natural values of our essential forests.

I am not letting our forests go without a fight. Preserve the Roadless Rule and protect national forests for communities who rely on them and for generations to come.

Thank you.

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