"the USDA’s own 300-page environmental impact analysis of the proposed repeal found that eliminating the national rule is “likely to adversely affect” 327 threatened or endangered species and 71 designated critical habitats nationwide."
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Trump plan would remove protections for national forests like Shawnee: ‘We stand to lose our solitude’
More than 170,000 acres in the Midwest could be opened to roads, logging and mining, threatening fragile ecosystems.