I told you they were coming for the Roadless Rule.
Yesterday, Republicans made their move โ and they hid it inside a wildfire bill.
Here's what makes this so enraging:
59 million acres of America's wildest national forests are now on the table.
The 2001 Roadless Rule has protected nearly 60 million acres across 39 states for 25 years. No logging. No road construction. No drilling. No mining.
Built after 1.6 million Americans showed up โ at 430 public hearings nationwide โ to demand it.
What lives here: bald eagles, elk, black bears, Cerulean warblers, marbled murrelets. Species that need large, intact, unfragmented habitat to survive. For many of them, roadless forests aren't just home โ they're the last places left.
What the amendment does: guts the rule. Opens the backcountry to logging and road construction under the cover of "fire prevention."
The administration is pursuing repeal through the executive branch at the same time. And unlike the original rule โ they aren't holding a single public hearing.
1.6 million people showed up to protect these forests.
The administration isn't asking anyone this time.
What do you call a wildfire bill that opens forests instead of protecting them?
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