The land at stake ranges from the far north's dense coastal forests to Southern California’s great expanses of brush. Experts dispute whether revoking the two-decade-old rule would help prevent wildfires.

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

The Trump administration rescinded a rule meant to safeguard forests across the West in a move that could open 2 million acres in Oregon to logging.