The move would affect more than half of the world’s largest intact temperate rainforest, opening it to potential logging, energy and mining projects. It would undercut a sweeping Clinton administration policy known as the “roadless rule,” which has survived a decades-long legal assault.
Trump has taken a personal interest in “forest management,” a term he told a group of lawmakers last year he has “redefined” since taking office.
NOTE: With the Amazon, the “lungs of the world”, losing a soccer field size piece of forest every minute, losing any trees that can help clean carbon from the air could increase the chance for climate disaster.