USDA Rescinds Roadless Rule That Prevented Logging, Fire Management – RedState
Recording, we can note, implies a renewable resource – trees. Here, in the Grande Terre, the implementation of the so-called “Roadless rule” in 2001 hampered forest exploitation in places such as the Tongass National Forest. Yes, in a national forest; Part of the justification of the national forest system was the preservation and availability of a strategic asset, wood. The Biden (Autopen) administration applied the “road without road” vigorously, and this rule was used to enclose 58.5 million acres of national forest land.
On Monday, the Secretary of Agriculture, Brooke L. Rollins, announced that the rule without a road had followed the Dodo path.
Today, the American secretary for agriculture Brooke L. Rollins announced during a meeting of the Association of Western governors in the New Mexico, the US Department of Agriculture (USDA) cancels the ruleless rule of 2001. This obsolete administrative rule contradicts the will of the congress and goes against the mandate of the Forest Service of the USDA to support health, diversity and productivity Nation meadows. The annulment of this rule will eliminate the prohibitions from the construction of roads, reconstruction and wood harvesting on nearly 59 million acres of the national forest system, allowing the prevention of fires and responsible production of wood.
This rule is too restrictive and hurts millions of acres in our national forests. In total, 30% of the land of the national forest system is affected by this rule. For example, nearly 60% of the land of forestry service in UTAH are limited to the development of roads and cannot be properly managed for the risk of fire. In Montana, it is 58%, and in the Alaska Tongass National Forest, the largest in the country, 92% are affected. This also affects jobs and economic development across rural America. UTAH alone estimates that the Roadless rule alone creates a 25% decrease in economic development in the forest sector.
It is a large piece of deregulation for all the United States. Here in Alaska, he will open the Tongass National Forest for Forest Management and other uses.
The member of the Congress Nick Begich noted: “The decision of the USDA today to cancel the deeply imperfect and outdated rule without road is another major victory for Alaska. Alaska forests are one of the largest natural assets in our state and the “road without road” has long been suffocated with responsible forest management, has been blocked with critical resources and economic opportunities in particular in Alaska. Never on responsible conservation; It was a bureaucratic overtaking that has undermined the capacity of local forest managers and communities to effectively manage their land.
The member of the Begich Congress is precisely right. The “Range without Road” was an absurd regulation, written to appease environmental activists who rarely see, if never, the real environment, and even less try to live them.
Of course, nobody wants to see large stretches of clear and left -free cut, and we do not want to see endless earth roads crisscrossing the landscape. But we won’t do it. This is not how modern forest management works, and we always want to keep resources, not waste them. People love wild places, people like green trees and colored wild flowers. This act, this deactivation of certain useless administrative formaliers, will increase, and not decrease, the access of people to these areas – to land that really belongs to the American people.
This is the kind of deregulation for which we voted.
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The elimination of this rule will create jobs, it will allow better access to the goods that the forest service has been created to protect, it will facilitate the prevention and management of forest fires and, we can hope, will allow recreational access to these lands by the Americans – they are, after all, after all, OUR Lands.
Promises made.
Promises held.
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