Trump Admin Seeks To Deforest 59M Public Acres

The Washington Post reports:

A decades-old rule protecting tens of millions of acres of pristine national forest land, including 9 million acres in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest, would be rescinded under plans announced Monday by the Trump administration.

Speaking at a meeting of Western governors in New Mexico, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins said the administration would begin the process of rolling back protections for nearly 59 million roadless acres of the National Forest System.

If the rollback survives court challenges, it will open up vast swaths of largely untouched land to logging and roadbuilding. By the Agriculture Department’s estimate, this would include about 30 percent of the land in the National Forest System, encompassing 92 percent of Tongass, one of the last remaining intact temperate rainforests in the world.

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Tongass National Forest is the most beautiful place I’ve ever been. It’s surreal, like out of Avatar or something.

Lush green forests.
Blue glaciers.
Crystal clear water, you can look straight down into it and see vivid pink and orange jellyfish.

Everything Trump touches dies. pic.twitter.com/Ch12tIfpjU

— MM  (@adgirlMM) June 24, 2025

I don’t know how we stop this. He’s going to destroy everything that makes America great. This is the latest in his series of attacks against our beautiful protected lands and forests. 🪶 https://t.co/7uspwM5HON

— MM  (@adgirlMM) June 24, 2025

Trump Administration to End Protections for 58 Million Acres of National Forests

This is a crime. That land belongs to all Americans. The Trump Administration truly wants to leave us with nothing. Even worse, they’re going to fecklessly and torturously kill the wildlife habitat… pic.twitter.com/wX8v7W5pPP

— Richard Smith (@Richard_ezio) June 24, 2025