John,
America’s roadless forests are sanctuaries for grizzly bears, gray wolves, salmon, spotted owls, and hundreds of other species. These lands — nearly 60 million acres of national forests — are some of the most intact, connected wildlife habitats left in the United States.
The Roadless Area Conservation Rule has protected roadless forests since 2001, keeping them free from logging, road-building, and other industrial development.
Now the Trump administration wants to strip protections from 45 million of those acres— threatening vulnerable species, fouling precious water, and raising wildfire risk.
Road-building and logging in roadless forests will fragment habitats; disrupt wildlife migration routes; introduce invasive species; and bring noise, dust, pollution, and human pressure deep into the quiet backcountry, threatening already vulnerable and endangered plants and animals. Once these areas are gone, they’re gone forever.
Roadless forests are the beating heart of biodiversity, where the wild can still be wild. The United States wisely protected these places decades ago.
We can’t let President Trump throw that all away. Take action to protect the wild homes of America’s most vulnerable species.
