The U.S. Forest Service is set to publish a scaled-back final rule for how it will comply with the National Environmental Policy Act, making it easier for the agency to approve some logging and wildfire mitigation projects within national forests.
The new rule, set to take effect Thursday, has particular importance in the wake of this year’s extreme wildfires in California, Oregon, and Colorado. The megafires burned largely on land managed by the Forest Service, which oversees about 193 million acres of public forests nationwide.
The final rule, announced Wednesday in a Federal Register pre-publication notice, tables provisions floated in ...
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