The end to the federal government's Roadless Rule is inching closer to reality, as in the Wildfire Prevention Act of 2026, which recently passed the Senate's Energy and Natural Resources Committee, had a provision snuck into the largely bipartisan wildfire prevention bill that would all but kill it.
Senator Mike Lee (R., Utah), introduced the provision into the bill's language at the 11th hour, and included in the bill due to its bipartisan support knowing that it wouldn't, and couldn't, pass through the normal channels after his public haranguing last summer during his attempted sell off of our public lands.
