This is sad.
It’s no doubt tied to selling public land for tax cuts. Folks, I was just complaining about the forest roads we have being closed off. The only reason they want to open up the forest and build roads is for companies to come harvest more timber, which cuts off access to the land for you. They’re called “tree farms” and this past weekend we were blocked off from thousands of aces of land that no one can use except for some massive company.
I keep discovering this on our outings all the time. Or the roads are blocked off to protect the bears, or the elk, or the fish. There’s always some green reason and the administration has another, and it’s tied to greenbacks.
The Trump administration said on Monday that it would open up 58 million acres of back country in national forests to road construction and development, removing protections that had been in place for a quarter century.
Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced plans to repeal the 2001 “roadless rule” that had preserved the wild nature of nearly a third of the land in national forests in the United States. Ms. Rollins said the regulation was outdated.