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Senator Mike Lee Discusses Rescission of Roadless Rule and Timber Industry Challenges

Published July 10, 2025 | Video Starts at 03:21

But that's what we started this fall. Thank you. Well, I'd like to discuss briefly the revisions to the Manti LaSalle National Forest Management Plan. The 2023 draft of [the Manti LaSalle National Forest Management Plan] included 122,780 acres of recommended wilderness areas. Now, to be perfectly clear, these areas do not meet the Forest Service's own standards for wilderness or for recommended wilderness. (03:21–03:31)

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“The Roadless rule prohibits road construction and timber harvesting on nearly 59 million acres of National Forest System lands.”
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“That 59 million acres represents nearly 10% of the total federal land footprint.”
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“Since 2000, the average annual harvest from forest system lands has been just 2.3 billion board feet.”
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“This [average annual harvest] is far below both historic averages and allowable quantities.”
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“The practical effect of [the Roadless rule] has been environmental disaster.”
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“It's been devastating to forest health and to wildfire mitigation efforts.”
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“It's also added to the demise of our domestic timber industry.”
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“These areas do not meet the Forest Service's own standards for wilderness or for recommended wilderness.”
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“The recommendations also appear to conflict with the Utah Wilderness act of 1984.”
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