The Trump administration's 2025 repeal of the U.S. "Roadless Rule" prohibiting logging and road construction in national parks and wilderness areas may impact the 25 million Americans whose drinking water comes from previously roadless watersheds.
Article URL: https://plos.io/4eYT2bn
Article Title: Assessing the value of the U.S. Roadless Rule for people and nature
Author Countries: United States
Funding: This work was supported by funding from the University of Washington (JO) and from a contract from American Rivers to Conservation Science Partners (LC, PF, and HK). No funding sources are reported for SP and MD. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
PLOS Water
15-Jul-2026
Competing Interests: The authors have declared that no competing interests exist.