SUMMARY: Legislative Explainer

Despite its title, S.2967 is not a conservation bill in any real sense. It uses the language of land management – fuels reduction, invasive species, wildland fire – to justify expanding DHS and Border Patrol access roads, and infrastructure on federal public lands along the borders including in Wilderness and Roadless Areas, while eliminating legal protections for those lands.

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​CRITICAL: Would REQUIRE ROAD BUILDING AND LOGGING in Wilderness Areas

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STATUS: Being considered by the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee

SUMMARY: Legislative Explainer

H.R.7578 would expand federal logging authority by creating new categorical exclusions (CEs) and and enlarging existing ones. These CEs get little environmental analysis and have no requirements for public notice, let alone public input. It would also loosen timber sale oversight, expand destructive livestock grazing projects and weaken protections provided by the ESA.

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​CRITICAL: Creates new tools to avoid environmental analysis while weakening the ESA

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STATUS: Being considered by the House Ag. Committee and Natural Resources Committee

Summary: Legislative Explainer + Call to Action

The Bill would permanently transfer 115,200 acres of federal public land from the Tongass National Forest to newly created, for-profit, Alaska Native Urban corporations ostensibly representing five SE Alaska communities. Corporations with a long history of clear-cut logging and making millionaires of their board members while providing meager benefits to the Native communities they claim to serve.

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​CRITICAL: Would permanently transfer around 120K acres of National Forest to for-profit corporations

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STATUS: Has passed in the House and was approved by committee in the Senate leaving it one vote away from becoming law.

SUMMARY: Fact-sheet + Call to Action

Congress and the Administration are justifying their efforts to kill the 'Roadless Rule' by arguing the rule stands in the way of public safety because it hampers Agencies' abilities to fight dangerous wildfire. This premise is false. The research shows that in most cases thinning increases fire intensity and that more roads will lead to more ignitions – not far in the backcountry, but near human development.

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​CRITICAL: Efforts to end Roadless are underway in Congress through S.140 (most recent action 6/10/26) and H.R.7695 (most recent action 5/21/26). And by the Administration through a rules repeal at USDA– comment period is expected Q3 '26

SUMMARY: Fact-sheet + Call to Action

The Roadless Area Conservation Rule was adopted in 2001 following hundreds of public meetings

and 1.6 million public comments overwhelmingly in support. It provides special protection for more

than 45 million acres of inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest System, preventing new permanent road building and commercial logging while allowing fuel management and other wildfire risk reduction efforts.

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​CRITICAL: Efforts to end Roadless are underway in Congress through S.140 (most recent action 6/10/26) and H.R.7695 (most recent action 5/21/26). And by the Administration through a rules repeal at USDA– comment period is expected Q3 '26

SUMMARY: Legislative Explainer

Creates a new Categorical Exclusion (CE) for the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) to carry out high-impact forest thinning projects up to 5,000 acres without a thorough analysis of the impacts of the project.

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​CRITICAL: Yet another low-oversight categorical exclusion allowing commercial logging with no public oversight

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STATUS: Being considered by the House Committee on Natural Resources

SUMMARY: Legislative Explainer

Would strip away core protections allowing the public to weigh in on federal forest management, narrow what ecological effects agencies can consider and shrink the window to challenge bad decisions in court from years to months. It re-writes NEPA to serve industry's goals rather than public interest, locking in permits and shielding them from reversal even when courts find they violated the law.

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​CRITICAL: A short sided, bipartisan attempt to weaken the already toothless protection provided by the National Environmental Policy Act.

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STATUS: Passed by the House, in Committee in the Senate.