The Trump administration is moving to repeal a 25-year-old rule that has protected federal forests from road building and logging for two decades.
The “roadless rule” is a President Bill Clinton-era wilderness policy that protects nearly 45 million acres of federal land.
Mike Dombeck, former chief of the Forest Service from 1997 to 2001, joins us to discuss.
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