One of my proudest professional accomplishments is developing the technological and organizational capacity to actually influence a president's agenda. We used email to apply massive public pressure, enough that Vice-President Gore's inbox had to be turned off for a week. The result: conservationists got the Roadless Rule, in 2001.

Of course, as with all sane things the federal government does, it's under attack by the fascists.

#fascism #conservation #RoadlessRule

https://mountainjournal.org/spiking-roadless-rule-is-mandate-in-search-of-a-problem-experts-say/

Hey All - yeah everything sucks but I have an easy actionable thing to channel your rage!
⚠️ The US Forest Service is proposing to rescind the Roadless Rule. Created 25 years ago, this rule protects millions of acres from unnecessary roadbuilding and harmful industrial development.

✅ What to Do: Send your Congress people a letter, email, fax, call them, to ask them to keep the Roadless Rule.

There is an automated letter here you can electronically submit that Southern Environmental Law put together: https://act.selc.org/page/90991

Free fax contact info of all reps by state: https://faxzero.com/fax_congress.php

If this sounds familiar, it is because I posted about it last year when this first came out. *It is still being fought!* So please, speak up again, speak up now. You can also ask them to pass HR3930 while you are at it: "Roadless Area Conservation Act".

ETA some facts if you write your own:
- Protects over 50 million acres
- brings in $15 billion to local economies for recreation alone
- This site has a nice filter for your state (and even district specific!) https://www.eartheconomics.org/news/roadless-rules
- 99% of the 6,000+ comments were in favor of keeping the Roadless Rule
- poll datasheet from PEW https://www.pew.org/-/media/assets/2026/02/national-poll-on-roadless-rule.pdf
- The Roadless Act would be actual codified *law* that the forest service couldn't override, which is why this is good to also ask for (otherwise, yes it is essentially the same thing as the Roadless Rule)

#RoadlessRule #nps #nfs #Forest #forestry #nature #environment #hike #hiking #ecology #climate

Roadless area conservation: No roads, no extractive activities

Trump pushes to allow new logging in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest
* "The move would affect more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, opening it to potential logging, energy and mining projects. It would undercut a sweeping Clinton administration policy known as the “roadless rule,” which has survived a decades-long legal assault." >>
https://geosinstitute.org/past-initiative-forest-legacies/tongass/trump-pushes-to-allow-new-logging-in-alaska-s-tongass-national-forest/

* "Roadless area conservation is a conservation policy limiting road construction and the resulting environmental impact on designated areas of public land...In 'Industrial Tourism and the National Parks': Abbey describes road construction as "unnecessary or destructive development" and the loss of wilderness as a consequence of what he called "industrial tourism", where once-secluded natural areas become popularized and degraded." >>
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roadless_area_conservation

* What Is the Roadless Rule? "Enacted in 2001, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Roadless Rule) designated forests across the country as “inventoried roadless areas,” prohibiting the building of — you guessed it, new roads — but also logging and other harmful industries on these lands." >>
https://environmentamerica.org/articles/what-is-the-roadless-rule-and-why-should-you-care-about-it/
#forests #biodiversity #rainforest #roads #harm #extractivism #roadless #conservation #LoggingImpacts #mining #tourism #BellingenLogging #GlenifferRoad #NSWLogging #RoadlessRule