… The mission of the agency [the Forest Service], established during the Theodore Roosevelt presidency, was to steward and preserve the nation’s forests, protect the water quality and flow of rivers that supplied water to downstream communities, and ensure an orderly process for supplying timber. … The Trump administration has issued a raft of orders aimed at increasing logging, mining, and oil and gas production on public lands. … [N]ow the Roadless Rule—the federal policy that prohibits road building, reconstruction, and timber harvesting on 58.5 million acres of public lands—is itself under fire. In June, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced that her agency will rescind the rule.

Other public lands news:

• Deseret News (Salt Lake City, Utah): Federal government moves ‘Roadless Rule’ one step closer to repeal
• Time: Opinion: We must protect our public lands from Trump
• The Land Desk: Blog: Republicans are still waging war on public lands