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Forest Service plans to repeal rule that has blocked logging, mining in parts of Alaska and the West

The U.S. Forest Service will seek to repeal a rule that has effectively blocked the logging of almost a third of America’s national forests, Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins told a meeting of Western governors on Monday in New Mexico. The “Roadless Rule” has blocked the construction of new roads in wild areas of most states’ national forests since […]