Last Friday was the final day of the U.S. Forest Service’s 21-day comment period on the agency’s plan to repeal the Roadless Rule, which currently protects over 58.8 million acres of national forest land from road-building, logging, and other industrial activity. An analysis by the Center for Western Priorities (CWP) found that over 99 percent of the 183,000 comments submitted to regulations.gov as of Friday morning opposed the Trump administration’s plan to repeal the 2001 Roadless Rule. …Historically, the Roadless Rule has received extremely strong public support, receiving 1.6 million public comments when it was first proposed by the Clinton administration, with the vast majority of commenters favoring it. A 2019 poll by the Pew Charitable Trusts found that 75 percent of the public supported the rule, and also found that those in rural areas are just as likely to support the policy as those in non-rural areas.