Roadless Rule Rescission

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This week, Melanie Schlotterbeck was interviewed on KFI AM 640 about the Roadless Rule. The Roadless Area Conservation Rule protects lands, watersheds, hunting, fishing, hiking and biking trails throughout the nation. The federal administration wants to remove it. This opens up more than 55M acres for new roads for logging, mining, and oil/gas exploration. In California, that number is around 4.4M acres threatened. Comment now! Tuesday, October 6th is the last day to comment. Go to: Regulations.gov to have your … Read More

Take Action: Roadless Rule Comments

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The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule is a U.S. Forest Service policy that protects nearly 58 million acres of undeveloped national forests and grasslands from new road building and commercial logging. The Roadless Rule stops the creation of new roads in designated inventoried roadless areas. The Roadless Rule restricts timber harvesting, though thinning trees to reduce wildfire risk is still permitted. The Roadless Rule protects hundreds of municipal watersheds that supply drinking water. The Roadless Rule preserves large, uninterrupted habitats … Read More

Roadless Rule Article

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Hills For Everyone’s Melanie Schlotterbeck penned this Guest Column for the Chino Champion on the impacts of the federal Roadless Rule Rescission and how this decision will impact Chino Hills State Park and the Puente-Chino Hills Wildlife Corridor. On May 7th, HFE and partners organized a Rally for Nature with others like Power In Nature and guest speakers like Jason Wise. Read the article.

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