The Trump administration is rolling back a landmark conservation rule from the Clinton era that prevents roadbuilding and logging on roughly 58 million acres of federal forest and wildlands. Rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule comes as the USFS is under orders by Trump to increase logging and thinning in forests to address the wildfire threat. Environmentalists have already indicated they'll sue to prevent its reversal, however. The 2001 Roadless Rule effectively created de facto wilderness protections for scores of forests in the West and Alaska. Republican states and industry groups say Clinton usurped power reserved for Congress in the Wilderness Act. They have tried to overturn it for decades, filing more than a dozen unsuccessful lawsuits against it. Environmentalists counter that wildfires are more likely to occur in forests that have been developed with roads and other infrastructure. Trump is trying to turn over America's precious natural resources to voracious capitalists.