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The Roadless Rule has protected millions of acres of U.S. public lands for a generation

A timeline of the creation of and fight to defend the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Policy.

Agriculture Department initiates process targeting bedrock conservation policy that protects 45 million acres of national forests

Comments also support protections for mature trees

At least half a million say ‘No’ in initial round of public comment

These are lands that belong to all Americans, not the timber industry.

The Organized Village of Kasaan is fighting alongside other Southeast Alaska tribes and forest advocates to defend the Tongass National Forest.

Our teams in Bozeman, Montana, and Denver, Colorado, have spent decades fighting to defend the web of life, to protect people’s health, and to advance a just transition to clean energy. We’re pleased to share highlights of our progress, and a glimpse at what’s next.

Joseph Goldstein found healing and purpose in the Boundary Waters. Now, the Trump administration says it wants to open the wilderness area’s watershed up to mining.

Kristen Boyles, Managing Attorney, Northwest Office: “There is no emergency … that is just part of the grift.”

Allowing logging and roadbuilding on now protected lands in the Tongass National Forest is a deeply unpopular action that poses grave harm to the forest

Clearcutting. Drilling. Overfishing. The Trump administration is selling out our public lands to profiteers.

Environmental groups welcome needed action on old-growth, urge future action on mature forests

“Congress should support real solutions like the Community Protection and Wildfire Resiliency Act that put the safety and needs of communities over the timber industry’s profits.”

Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins today announced a rollback of the Roadless Rule

Tracking how Earthjustice is holding the Trump administration and Congress accountable — while making progress in states, in public utility commissions, and overseas.

We sued the Trump administration for trying to illegally open one of the world’s most pristine tropical marine environments to commercial fishing — and we won.

The bill would permanently codify the U.S. Forest Service’s roadless rule into federal law, protecting over 50 million acres of national forests from logging and other development