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US moves to open vast tracts of pristine forests to logging

The Rio Grande river is seen flowing in Rio Grande National Forest, Colorado

WASHINGTON (UNITED STATES) - President Donald Trump's administration on Tuesday proposed a rule change that would open 44 million acres of wild, undisturbed forest for road construction and logging.

The proposal would rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, enacted in the final days of the Clinton administration, which barred development across vast areas of public forests and grasslands designated as "inventoried roadless areas."

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