Bio4Climate joined 150 organizations to co-sign a letter urging Congress and the USDA to go above and beyond preserving the current Roadless Rule and instead enact strong, loophole-free, permanent protections for the nation’s inventoried roadless areas. The USDA announced on June 23, 2025 that the Roadless Rule would be rescinded.
Dear Members of Congress,
We, the undersigned public lands advocates, ask Congress to urge the U.S. Department of Agriculture to both immediately preserve the “Roadless Rule” (36 CFR, Part 294) and update the policy to enact permanent protection of these 58.2 million acres of priceless and irreplaceable ecosystems. A reformed Roadless Rule needs to end all forms of logging, grazing, mining, and drilling within Inventoried Roadless Area boundaries and close existing loopholes that allow logging and road-building…
Posted: August 26, 2025