STOW, Maine — U.S. Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins announced Monday that the Trump administration plans to rescind the Roadless Rule, which blocked logging on national forest lands for nearly 25 years. The Roadless Rule has affected 30% of national forest lands nationwide… This includes the White Mountain National Forest, which is located mostly in New Hampshire. But part of that national forest land is located in western Maine… According to the Center for Biological Diversity, the White Mountain National Forest contains approximately 368,000 acres of inventoried roadless areas. The nonprofit organization said the Roadless Rule has kept logging at bay on about 213,000 roadless acres, but noted the remaining 155,000 roadless acres are vulnerable to road construction and timber sales because they were identified later in the 2005 Forest Plan. …The announcement comes amid recent talk of selling off federal lands in part to improve housing affordability, an idea criticized by Democrats as a public land grab.