The Trump administration is looking to roll back a law that places tougher restrictions on logging in remote portions of national forests.
OREGON, USA — Nearly two decades of protections for some of the Pacific Northwest’s wildest landscapes may be on the chopping block as federal officials under the Trump administration move to undo the “Roadless Rule” and return parts of the national forest system to the commercial timber base.
The rule, created in 2001 at the end of the Clinton administration, restricts road construction and logging on about 60 million acres of national forest nationwide. In Oregon, it covers about 2 million acres; in Washington,
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