The Trump administration rescinded a rule meant to safeguard forests across the West in a move that could open 2 million acres in Oregon to logging.

The Trump administration plans to rescind the "roadless rule" that impedes logging on 59 million acres of national forests, Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins says.

About 4.2 million roadless acres of National Forest land in Colorado will remain protected despite the Trump administration’s announcement Monday that 59 million acres of roadless set-asides in