Reinstate the 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule for the Tongass National Forest

What has happened

1. Aug 20, 2026 Attempted

   USDA published the proposed rule rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule outright, with a draft environmental impact statement and cost-benefit analysis, "return[ing] decisionmaking for the management of inventoried roadless areas to the land management planning process at the individual national forest level". Still a proposal a week before this research; and it repeals the national rule rather than reinstating President Trump's 2020 Alaska Roadless Rule, which no document in the window revives by name.

   • USDA Forest Service proposed rule: Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation — rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule

     Primary Executive branch Aug 20, 2026

2. Aug 29, 2025 Attempted

   USDA announced an environmental impact statement and rulemaking to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule across about 44.7 million acres, and said in terms that "[a]s directed by Executive Order 14153: Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary Resource Potential, the proposed rule will expressly exclude the Tongass National Forest from the 2001 Roadless Rule".

   • USDA Forest Service: Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System Lands — notice of intent to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule and exclude the Tongass

     Primary Executive branch Aug 29, 2025

   • Executive Order 14153, “Unleashing Alaska's Extraordinary Resource Potential”

     Primary Executive branch Jan 20, 2025