Tag: roadless rule

A former USFS hydrologist with 28 years of experience is urging residents to fight to maintain the Roadless Rule to protect water, forests, and wildlife. We need to improve the rule, not erase it.

Tahoe’s roadless lands have long preserved clean water, wildlife habitat, recreation, and local economies. A proposed repeal of the Roadless Rule could now expose millions of protected acres to expanded logging and industrial use.

Tahoe’s public lands protect clean water, wildlife, and fire-resilient forests. An environmental researcher argues that with federal safeguards on the chopping block, the fight to save them is now or never.

A former US Forest Service employee warns of lasting damage to public land management as a result of the DOGE firings earlier this year. She urges citizens to act now to defend public lands.