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Trump to rescind rule that protects some federal lands from roads, logging

The Trump administration announced on Monday that it wants to do away with a Clinton-era regulation known as the Roadless Rule, which put protections on huge swaths of federal land across the country.

Here & Now‘s Peter O’Dowd speaks with Mary Erickson, retired supervisor of the Custer Gallatin National Forest in Montana, about the future of logging and road building on federal lands.

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