Green Groups Call on Congress to Protect Forest Roadless Areas

More than 150 conservation groups called on Congress to protect national forest roadless areas from the Trump administration’s plan to open to them to widespread logging.

The groups, including Greenpeace USA, a chapter of the National Association for the Advancement of Colored People, WildEarth Guardians, and dozens of local conservation organizations, asked lawmakers Tuesday to urge the US Forest Service to keep and update the 2001 Roadless Rule.

“A reformed Roadless Rule needs to end all forms of logging, grazing, mining, and drilling within Inventoried Roadless Area boundaries and close existing loopholes that allow logging and road-building,” they said. ...