An All-Out Attack on our Forests and Wildlife
Christopher Rufo may be the bane of diversity, inclusion and all things ”woke,” but this Seattle expatriate delivers a timely warning of right-wing schemes to sell off public lands — our lands. “Nobody is going to build ‘affordable housing’ deep in the Olympic Peninsula, which is one of the most beautiful places in the country,” Rufo posted recently. “I want my kids hiking, camping, and fishing on those lands, not selling them for some tax-credit scam.”
Rufo delivers a more on-target message than many of the hyperbole-filled, send-us-money messages from national environmental groups. He’s right: We need to get directly involved in protecting lands that belong to us, lands that make western North America a livable, not-yet-used-up stretch of the planet.
The “shock and awe” attack strategy of the Trump Administration is being deployed against our 160-million-acre national forest system. The administration declared this week that it is rolling back the Roadless Rule, the Clinton Administration action that barred logging and road construction on 58 million acres of America’s national forests.
In a mantra coined by our then-Gov. Dan Evans, repeated this week by Oregon’s Democratic Sen. Ron Wyden, once wildlands and forests are lost, “they are lost forever.” A lot is already lost: our national forests are crisscrossed by 375,000 miles of roads.
https://www.postalley.org/2025/06/28/an-all-out-attack-on-our-forests-and-wildlife-once-its-gone/
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