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Each report pulls together the peer-reviewed science, primary government documents, and polling data behind one piece of the rescission story. Open a report to read it in full.

SPECIAL REPORTS

5 reports · click any to open

The Wildfire Justification Falls Apart

Special report

Aplet 2026 (Fire Ecology), Balch 2017 (PNAS), Bradley 2016, Johnston 2021 — and

the Schultz/WUI ninefold exaggeration. The empirical case that the rescission's

wildfire rationale is wrong.

Drinking Water for 124 Million Americans

Special report

DellaSala 2011, the 850%-erosion finding, Salem and Seattle municipal case

studies. The economic and public-health case for keeping forests intact.

The Real Motivation: Timber, Energy, and Minerals

Special report

USDA's own Federal Register notice, EOs 14192/14225/14154, and the December 2025

OMB deregulation push. What the rescission is actually for.

What 600,000 Comments Tell Us

Special report

The 2025 comment-period results, the >99.8% roadless.org analysis, Pew February

2026 polling (76% support), and the S.2042/H.R.3930 cosponsor counts.

Climate and Carbon Impacts

Special report

Peng 2023 (Nature), Harris 2016, Lloyd 2013, DellaSala 2022. Wood harvest as a

global-scale carbon source — and what repealing the Roadless Rule means for the

U.S. carbon ledger.