Who Wants to Rescind the Roadless Rule?
Explore their arguments and come to your own conclusion about rescission.
Often, who is for something is all you need to know to be against that something. In this case that's certainly true. But we'll let you decide for yourself.
A self-guided learning map
Understanding the Roadless Rule can seem like a puzzle
The Learning Map helps you put all the pieces together: what's at stake, why conservation matters, and a roadless area that matters to you.
What's at stake
Roadless Area Values
Hailed as one of America's most successful conservation measures, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule has protected drinking water, wildlife habitat, and world-class recreation across 44.5 million acres of national forests.
Rescinding the rule threatens all of that — handing control of these public lands to extractive industries.
Why it matters
Threats to Roadless Areas
Road construction is not one threat — it is the enabling condition for most of the major threats imperiled species and ecosystems face on National Forest lands.
Inventoried Roadless Areas exist in their current ecological condition because roads were never built. Rescinding the Rule activates a cascade of harm documented by NatureServe, the IUCN, and the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service.
Connect
Find your roadless area
Find a place that means something to you — by ZIP, by name, by a feature you remember, by a species you care about. Nine facets per area: wildlife, trails, history, your story.
If you haven't been to a roadless area, you may already have — you just didn't know it.
Tell your story
Your story
Now you know the issues and you've connected to a place. An original perspective grounded in lived experience is what moves people — and your representatives.