In 2001, after more than 600 public hearings and 1.6 million public comments — the largest response to a federal rule in American history — the Roadless Rule protected some 58 million acres of national forest from roadbuilding and industrial logging. Those acres are the headwaters of drinking water for millions of people, the last unfragmented habitat left in a lot of states, and the elk country and trout streams hunters and anglers have defended for a generation. USDA is now moving to erase all of it administratively, which is exactly how it could be erased again by whoever runs the department next. A protection that survived two decades of litigation shouldn't rest on a memo. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to write the Roadless Rule into statute, where an appointee can't repeal it.
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In 2001, after more than 600 public hearings and 1.6 million public comments — the largest response to a federal rule in American history — the Roadless Rule protected some 58 million acres of national forest from roadbuilding and industrial logging. Those acres are the headwaters of drinking water for millions of people, the last unfragmented habitat left in a lot of states, and the elk country and trout streams hunters and anglers have defended for a generation. USDA is now moving to erase all of it administratively, which is exactly how it could be erased again by whoever runs the department next. A protection that survived two decades of litigation shouldn't rest on a memo. Resistbot is asking the candidates on your 2026 ballot to write the Roadless Rule into statute, where an appointee can't repeal it.
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