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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Morgan Lee and Becky Bohrer

Trump administration plans to rescind rule blocking logging on national forest lands

Roadless Rule National Forests - (Copyright 2025 The Associated Press. All rights reserved.)

The Trump administration plans to rescind a nearly quarter-century-old rule that blocked logging on national forest lands, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Monday.

The so-called roadless rule adopted in the last days of Bill Clinton's presidency in 2001 long has chafed Republican lawmakers, especially in the West where national forests sprawl across vast, mountainous terrain and the logging industry has waned.

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