WASHINGTON, Sept. 9 -- Sen. Catherine Cortez Masto issued the following press release:
Popular Roadless Rule conservation measure protects 44 million acres of U.S. Forest Service lands from destructive and expensive roadbuilding and logging and supports outdoor recreation
Washington, D.C. -U.S. Senator Catherine Cortez Masto (D-Nev.) joined a bipartisan coalition of 164 Members of Congress led by Representative Andrea Salinas (D-Ore.-06) and Senator Maria Cantwell (D-Wash.) in urging the Trump Administration to abandon its proposal to rescind the Roadless Rule, a guardrail protecting 44 million acres of National Forest System lands.
In a letter to the U.S. Department of Agriculture and the U.S. Forest Service, the lawmakers criticized th...