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Clearcut area north of Thorne Bay on Prince of Wales Island on U.S. Forest Service land within the Tongass National Forest, Alaska. (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice)
Press Release August 27, 2025

Earthjustice Responds to Trump Administration Attack on Cherished National Forests

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

A beaver lodge in the Sunset Roadless Area. The area is home to species including elk, bear, beaver and goshawk.
(Ted Zukoski / Earthjustice)
feature August 27, 2025

Timeline of the Roadless Rule

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

Zack Porter, Executive Director of Standing Trees, in a mature eastern hardwood forest in Telephone Gap, Green Mountain National Forest, Vermont. The largest roadless areas in Vermont are found in the Green Mountain National Forest. (Kurt Budliger for Earthjustice)
Press Release August 27, 2025

Trump Administration Attempt to Repeal Roadless Rule Met With Widespread Opposition

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

Press Release September 20, 2024

One Million Public Comments Support Old-Growth Protections on National Forests

Comments also support protections for mature trees

Old-growth trees on Kosciusko Island, Tongass National Forest, Prince of Wales, Alaska. The Roadless Rule protects about half of the Tongass, the crown jewel of the National Forest system and home to nearly one-third of all old-growth temperate rainforest remaining in the entire world. (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice)
Press Release September 23, 2025

Proposal to Scrap Roadless Rule Draws Public Outcry

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

A photographer makes pictures of old-growth trees in the Siuslaw National Forest in western Oregon. (David Herasimtschuk)
feature August 27, 2025

The Repeal of the Roadless Rule Threatens Our Wildest Public Lands

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

Stormy Hamar, a Haida artist and carver and a member of the Organized Village of Kasaan Tribal Council, is working to protect the remaining old-growth trees on Prince of Wales Island in the Tongass National Forest. (David Herasimtschuk for Earthjustice)
Article August 27, 2025

What the Tongass Needs is Time to Heal, Not More Logging

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

The Gallatin Range in Southwest Montana. (Jared Lloyd / Getty Images)
feature September 23, 2025

The Intermountain West: Regional Spotlight

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 paddles in the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness in Northeastern Minnesota. Goldstein has been working to protect the Boundary Waters since he was 13 and diagnosed with Leukemia. (Photo courtesy Joseph Goldstein)
Article October 3, 2025

The Fight to Save a Beloved Midwest Wilderness

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.

In the News: The Seattle Times April 15, 2025

Trump proposed cutting the Northwest’s national forests. So what happens next?

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

Sunlight breaks through the lush understory of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest. (Carlos Rojas / Getty Images)
Press Release June 23, 2025

Tongass Defenders Blast the Trump Administration’s Rollback of Roadless Rule Protections on America’s Largest Forest

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

Hikers at No Name Lake in the Three Sisters Wilderness, Deschutes National Forest, Oregon. (Holly Mandarich / Unsplash)
feature July 11, 2025

Earthjustice Fights for Our Public Lands

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

A Bureau of Land Management-maintained forest in Oregon. (Bureau of Land Management)
Press Release December 19, 2023

Climate Forests Campaign: Biden Administration Moves to Protect Old-Growth Forests

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

Logging operations in the Coconino National Forest in Arizona. President Trump issued an executive order that seeks to increase logging in the national forest system and other federal lands. (Randi Shaffer / USDA Forest Service)
Press Release April 10, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Senate Fix Our Forests Act

“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.”

Elk in the Rapid River Roadless area in Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest. (John McCarthy / The Wilderness Society)
Press Release June 23, 2025

Earthjustice Responds as Trump Administration Takes Aim at Longstanding Rule Protecting National Forestlands

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

U.S. President Donald Trump speaks during inauguration ceremonies in the Rotunda of the U.S. Capitol on Jan. 20, 2025, in Washington, D.C. (Kevin Dietsch / Getty Images)
feature April 29, 2025

Where the Trump Administration is Going and Where We Stand

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

Grey reef sharks and colorful schools of anthias in the waters of Jarvis Island at the Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument. (Kelvin Gorospe / NOAA)
feature August 11, 2025

Court Stops Trump Attack on Pacific Islands Heritage Marine National Monument

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.

Much of Alaska’s Tongass National Forest is protected from logging and roadbuilding thanks to the roadless rule.
(Ivan Kish / Getty Images)
Press Release June 11, 2025

Earthjustice Statement on Reintroduction of the Roadless Area Conservation Act

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