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On June 23, 2025, the Trump administration officially repealed the federal “roadless rule,” a 24-year-old policy that had restricted logging and road construction on large swaths of national forestland. The change opens roughly 2 million acres in Oregon to potential forest development projects, including roadbuilding and timber harvests.
The announcement came from U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins during a meeting of the Western Governors’ Association in New Mexico. The rule, first introduced in 2001 during the Clinton administration, originally protected 59 million acres of national forest across the U.S., including portions of the Cascade Range, the Siskiyous, Hells Canyon, and Oregon’s coastal mountains.
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