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Articles: USFS
This is a series on Roadless Rule misinformation. Read: Part 2 Here | Part 3 Here With the announcement by the US Forest Service that they plan to rescind the Roadless Rule, we are seeing a flood of social media posts from anti-access advocates encouraging their...
Since 2001, BlueRibbon Coalition, along with various states, have been fighting the implementation of the Roadless Rule, which essentially designated 59 million acres of national forests as de facto wilderness through a regulation instead of an act of Congress. The USDA has proposed to rescind the rule and are now accepting comments. BRC strongly supports its rescission. Add your support below by September 19th!
To meet the water needs of their growing population, the City of Bend, OR is planning to purchase parcels from the USFS under the Townsite Act. The USFS has offered a proposal to support the city’s needs while preserving recreation access. BRC supports this proposal, and we think you should too. Comment via the form below by September 8th.
For the first time in 35 years, USFS is updating the management plans for the Blue Mountains region in Oregon and Washington. Initial plans propose to stop issuing recreation residence tract permits, consider over 700,000 acres for Roadless Areas, and only maintain a fraction of the already-established roads. Your voice is needed to ensure that we protect recreation access to this popular forest.
The Bridger-Teton National Forest is beginning the process to revise its management plan. With the recent Congressional Acts and Executive Orders that call to protect and expand recreation, we have a generational opportunity expand access within one of the most popular national forests in the States. We present our recommendations and need your support for their consideration via the form below.
With 700,000 acres of public land already approved for sale, including another 31 million acres fast-tracked for disposal, the Western Solar Plan, approved in 2024, represents one of the largest privatizations of public land in history. We are calling on Congress to rescind this plan, which adversely affects recreation, and need your voice for support in the form below.
Roadless Rule Rescission. What does it Mean? What are the consequences? Why did we want it rescinded? What’s Fact vs. Fiction? Find this and a timeline of BRC’s fight to rescind this rule in the article below.
The U.S. Forest Service has released a Draft Environmental Assessment (EA) for the Taos Canyon Wildfire Resilience and Habitat Improvement Project in the Carson National Forest of New Mexico. In 2024 BRC sounded the alarm on the potential impacts...
A proposal initiated by the U.S. Forest Service in Montana to reduce wildfire risks while improving recreation and habitat has been met with frivolous lawsuits by environmentalist groups to stall the project. USFS has released a new assessment to address lawsuit concerns and we need your voice to ensure this project gets pushed forward! Below you will find a brief history of the project and why BlueRibbon Coalition supports the USFS proposal.
Since its passage in 1973, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has morphed from a conservation tool into a powerful weapon that special interest groups use to shut down access, restrict land use, and stall economic activity across the West. With an abysmal track record,...