The Hound | Aug. 21

Hi there,

It’s Friday. The Trump administration has formally moved to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule — a 25-year-old protection that has blocked logging, road construction, and mining on nearly 45 million acres of national forest, roughly one-third of the entire National Forest System. The administration frames it as a wildfire management measure. What the rescission would actually do is open some of the last untouched wilderness in America to the logging, drilling, and mining industries — the same industries that have spent years lobbying to make exactly this happen.

🖊️ Sign the petition to call on the media to cover the rescission of the Roadless Rule not as a regulatory dispute between environmentalists and the timber industry, but as what it is: a systematic giveaway of publicly owned land to private extractive interests, dressed up in the language of wildfire prevention.

This is part of a broader pattern. The NRDC called it plainly: "the most successful land conservation policy in modern U.S. history" is being dismantled to give loggers and drillers free rein to turn iconic forests into industrial wastelands. The public deserves reporting that names who benefits — and what is being lost forever.

In addition, the Trump administration is planning an expansion of child imprisonment in detention camps. And Americans with disabilities are fighting back against an attack on their autonomy from the Trump’s appointees.

Read about these, and more, with today’s stories:

Administration Moves to Open National Forests to Roadbuilding, Drilling, and Logging (Mother Jones)

They grew up with disability rights. Now, they're fighting to keep them (NPR)

Judge Orders Monitors for Child Detention as Trump Administration Plans Expansion (The American Prospect)

Trump Hits Brutal New Polling Low as Dems Win Stunner in MAGA Country (The New Republic)

Immigrant Wants to Pay $368,000 in Fines, but Broken Payment System Won’t Let Him (The Intercept)

A historic boat emerges in Serbia as Europe’s rivers run dry from drought and heat (AP News)

Bodies of Evidence (The Marshall Project)

Until next time,

Harry from The Hound

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