After missing its initial timeframe for issuing a draft environmental impact statement for its proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule, the Forest Service is now delaying the public rollout of that repeal until late spring or summer, according to a new status update filed last week in a court in Alaska.

For the record, almost everything about this Roadless Rule repeal has to do with Alaska’s Tongass National Forest (including this very court case that’s delaying the repeal itself).

That is the big prize the USDA and Alaska politicians have their eyes on—not the roadless hill near your home or your favorite backcountry lake.