Breaking News: Trump officials are moving to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to new roads and logging, removing protections that had been in place since 2001.

How each outlet headlined it

• The New York Times left

  Breaking News: Trump officials are moving to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to new roads and logging, removing protections that had been in place since 2001.
• The Hill center

  The Trump administration on Tuesday moved to strip protections from 44 million acres of national forest. The U.S. Forest Service has proposed to rescind the 2001 “Roadless Rule,” which prohibits road construction and logging in pristine parts of national forests that don’t currently have roads. By blocking roads, the rule targeted by the administration also inhibits…
• Reuters

  Trump administration moves to rescind rule that protects millions of forest acres reut.rs/4gibKtX
• The Washington Post left

  Breaking news: The Trump administration proposed a full repeal of a rule that has prevented road-building and logging inside tens of millions of acres of national forests, a move that environmental advocates fear could fragment already-threatened woodlands.
• The Guardian left

  Almost 45m acres of national forests could be potentially opened to road construction, drilling and logging The Trump administration said on Tuesday it plans to rescind the “roadless rule” that has protected old growth forests in the US for 25 years, potentially opening up almost 45m acres of national forests to road construction, drilling and logging. Conservationists had feared the announcement was coming since last summer after Brooke Rollins, Trump’s secretary of agriculture, targeted a rule
• The Wall Street Journal right

  The U.S. Forest Service is aiming to open more than 44 million acres of national-forest land to logging and road construction, a reversal of a policy that protected wildlife habitats for decades. on.wsj.com/3U4rGZo