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In the News: Wyoming Public Radio August 28, 2026

More time for public comment on feds’ plan to rescind Roadless Rule

Aaron Bloom, Attorney, Biodiversity Defense Program: “We are asking for public hearings throughout the country in accessible locations, so that the public that’s impacted by this rule can show up and have their voices heard.”
Mature eastern hardwood forest in Green Mountain National Forest, home to the largest roadless areas in Vermont. (Kurt Budliger for Earthjustice)
Press Release August 26, 2026

Groups Request Public Comment Period Extension for the Proposed Rollback of the Roadless Rule

The Trump administration has allowed just 32 days for the public to comment on the plan that would open the door to widespread destruction of cherished national forests
document August 21, 2026

Roadless Rule Recission: Public Comment Extension Request

Conservation groups are asking the U.S. Forest Service to extend the public comment period on the proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule from 32 days to at least 120 days,…
In the News: Alaska Native News August 20, 2026

Tongass defenders continue to fight ‘unjustifiable’ move to rescind Roadless Rule

Kate Glover, Attorney, Alaska Office: “The Tongass is still healing from a half century of intensive, clearcut logging. The region has moved on, and its economy today depends on intact forests, not clearcuts.”
The Roadless Rule protects about half of the Tongass in Alaska, 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. (Carlos Rojas / Getty Images)
Article August 19, 2026

How Trump and His Allies Are Attacking America’s Forests

The Trump admin and Congress are trying to gut our national forest protections for the benefit of loggers, drillers, and miners. We're fighting back to defend our iconic public lands…
In the News: Bloomberg Law August 19, 2026

Roadless Rule Rollback

Timothy Preso, Managing Attorney, Biodiversity Program: “This rule has been subject to litigation many times and it has survived numerous challenges, and if they’re going to try to take it down again, we’re not going to stop defending it.”
Elk in the Rapid River Roadless area in Idaho’s Nez Perce National Forest. (John McCarthy / The Wilderness Society)
feature August 18, 2026

Timeline of the Roadless Rule

A timeline of the creation of and 25-year fight to defend the National Forest Roadless Area Conservation Policy.
In the News: The Wall Street Journal August 18, 2026

Trump Administration Moves to Open Millions of National-Forest Acres to Logging

Abigail Dillen, President of Earthjustice: “For 25 years, the Roadless Rule has kept our wildest forests intact. The benefits have been incalculable for people, for water, for wildlife, and for the climate.”
In the News: NPR August 18, 2026

Trump administration moves to open untouched national forests to logging

Drew Caputo, VP of Litigation for Lands, Wildlife, and Oceans: “The roadless rule protects some of the most valuable public lands that belong to all Americans. It is the most important land protection measure of the last 60 years.”
A photographer makes pictures of old-growth trees in the Siuslaw National Forest in western Oregon. (David Herasimtschuk)
feature August 18, 2026

The Repeal of the Roadless Rule Threatens Our Wildest Public Lands

These are lands that belong to all Americans, not the timber industry.
A photographer makes pictures of old-growth trees in the Siuslaw National Forest in western Oregon. (David Herasimtschuk)
Press Release August 18, 2026

Earthjustice Responds to Trump Administration Attack on Roadless Rule

Despite widespread opposition, Forest Service seeks to lift protections across 45 million acres of national forestlands
The Roadless Rule protects about half of the Tongass in Alaska, 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. (Carlos Rojas / Getty Images)
Press Release August 18, 2026

Conservationists Blast Federal Proposal to Bulldoze Forestlands

U.S. Forest Service announces proposal to rescind Roadless Rule, threatening millions of acres of national forestlands
Grizzly bear near Swan Lake in Yellowstone National Park. (Neal Herbert / NPS)
Update July 28, 2026

The Trump Administration Proposes Handing Grizzly Management to States Hostile to the Bears

Under the proposed rule, states would gain significant new authority to relocate or kill grizzly bears.
In the News: Courthouse News Service July 17, 2026

Repeal of national park rule could impact drinking water for millions of Americans, study finds

Aaron Bloom, Attorney, Biodiversity Defense Program: “The current effort to rescind the rule has been proposed despite that overwhelming support more than 25 years ago, despite the hundreds of thousands who have spoken up in support of the Roadless Rule in the past year since the proposed rollback was first…
Rep. Jennifer McClellan (D-VA) speaks during a press conference renouncing the rollback of the proposed rollback of the Roadless Rule on May 13, 2026. (Matt Roth for Earthjustice)
Press Release May 13, 2026

Community Advocates join Members of Congress in Broad Opposition to Planned Attack on National Forestlands

A diverse array of stakeholders representing Tribes, hunters, conservationists, firefighters, and business owners rebuke the Trump administration’s plan to roll back the Roadless Rule
In the News: Montana Public Radio May 4, 2026

The Roadless Rule

Timothy Preso, Managing Attorney, Biodiversity Program: “We have all had the benefit of that now for a quarter of a century, many of us have been born and raised and come to adulthood in a world where those areas were protected.”
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 March 23, 2026

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.
Revillagigedo Island in Alaska. (Photo courtesy of Anita Gould)
Press Release January 23, 2026

Old-Growth Logging Project in the Tongass National Forest Revived

The U.S. Forest Service releases a final environmental impact statement moving forward with the largest old-growth logging project on the Tongass in years