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The Trump administration frames rescinding the 25-year-old Roadless Rule as a wildfire measure. The rule already permits fuel reduction. What it prohibits is roads, drilling, and commercial timber — which is w…
The administration is selling the Roadless Rule rescission as wildfire management, but the rule already allows fuel reduction. What it prohibits is commercial road-building, drilling, and logging.
Real wildfire risk in the west is being used as cover for a debate about commercial access. The 5 percent treatment figure is real; the claim that the rule is the binding constraint is not supported by the operational record.
When a policy's stated purpose and its operative mechanism point in different directions, the mechanism is the policy. Rescission opens 45 million acres to industrial use. The wildfire framing is the argument, not the effect.
Follow the evidence →Public decisions measured by who pays, who benefits, and what changes for the people living there.
Commissioners are choosing the strictest available instrument, one that would require a future board vote to unwind rather than expiring on its own.
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