Urging Congressman Kevin Kiley to draft legislation opposing rescinding the Roadless Rule by the Trump administration (op-ed)

(P)erhaps the most powerful argument in Congressman Kiley’s arsenal to reinstate the Roadless Rule would be the increased threat of wildfires. Experts have noted that mature forests in these remote areas are highly resistant to fires and that human encroachment will intensify wildfire incidents.

“Roadless areas are some of the most wildfire-resilient landscapes in North America because they are the least degraded by industrial logging and road-building that would have converted fire-adapted native forests into fire-prone tree farms, and provided road access for human-caused ignitions from careless recreationists and sociopathic arsonists,” said Timothy Ingalsbee, executive director of Firefighters United for Safety, Ethics, and Ecology.