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For Immediate Release: August 18th, 2026 Contacts: Grace Brahler Newsome, Wildlands Director, grace@cascwild.org, (541) 393-8178 Eugene, OR — Today, the Trump administration is advancing its repeal of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, commonly called the Roadless Rule, despite overwhelming public opposition. The proposed rollback of the widely popular Roadless Rule threatens nearly 45 million … Read more
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
March 29, 2016
WASHINGTON, D.C. – The U.S. Supreme Court today declined to hear a last‐ditch effort by the State of Alaska to exempt America’s largest national forest from a national rule protecting undeveloped, road‐free national forest areas from logging and road construction. The State sought to overturn a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals ruling that kept the Roadless Area Conservation Rule in effect in the vast Tongass National Forest in Southeast Alaska. The Ninth Circuit agreed with a federal District Court in Alaska that the Bush administration improperly exempted the Tongass from that landmark conservation measure.
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