They don’t need to sell the forest if they can just build a road through it - and now they can.
That’s the loophole.
The Roadless Rule closed it. For 25 years, it kept chainsaws, logging trucks, and mining rigs out of 59 million acres of pristine national forest. No roads meant no access. No access meant the trees stayed standing.
Now the Trump administration has announced its repeal.
If they succeed, the largest remaining wild forests in the country will be opened up to industrial logging and roadbuilding.
Roads like these are like open wounds, ripe for infection by industry parasites with their own profit oriented agendas. That’s how this works. Bulldozers first, regret later.
The Roadless Rule is boring by design. They’re counting on you not knowing what it is.
Now you do. Read this quick explainer. Pass it on.