The Trump administration on Tuesday proposed rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule on 44 million acres of national forest land, according to the U.S. Forest Service. The proposal would remove road-construction and timber-harvest restrictions across the affected acreage of the 193-million-acre National Forest System. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the rule has kept tens of millions of acres from treatments that could reduce wildfire risk.
The proposal is the latest in a series of changes to the Forest Service under President Donald Trump. The agency has announced plans to move its headquarters from Washington, D.C., to Utah as part of a sweeping restructuring, according to the BBC [1].
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