09/01/2026
🚨 Nearly 45 million acres of national forest could lose a critical protection.
The U.S. Forest Service is proposing to repeal the Roadless Rule, a safeguard that has helped keep some of our wildest forests whole and free from most new roads and logging for more than two decades.
When roads cut through forests, they don’t just change the landscape. They break apart wildlife habitat, send soil into streams, and make forests more vulnerable to human-caused fires. Most redwood and giant sequoia forests would likely remain protected by other safeguards, but roadless forests across the nation could be opened to damage that can last for generations.
We’ve seen what happens when forests are carved up by roads. That’s why we’re removing old logging roads from recovering redwood forests, reconnecting habitat, and bringing damaged streams back to life.
These places belong to all of us, and we have a say in what happens next.
📣 Submit a public comment by September 21 and make your voice heard: https://savetr.org/Roadless
If you'd like to submit a comment, feel free to adapt the language below:
"The U.S. Forest Service already faces more than $8.6 billion in deferred maintenance. Its limited resources would be better spent repairing roads, maintaining trails, and improving existing infrastructure than constructing new roads in wild landscapes."
