The Trump Administration is proposing sweeping revisions to another important protection for federal forests: the Travel Management Rule. The repeal of the Travel Management Rule has garnered less attention than other recent regulatory gutting—like Trump’s recent Endangered Species Act rollbacks or the Roadless Rule rescission—but this action would reverse decades of work to help address the Forest Service’s failing road network.

On Friday, Governor Newsom vetoed AB 2494 (Rogers), our bill to modernize the management of state-owned “demonstration forests.” Under existing law, these public lands are to be managed for “maximum sustained production” of timber products, while only “giving consideration” to other management values, like recreation, biodiversity, research, and wildfire resilience.

A federal judge has struck down a U.S. Forest Service plan to log the forested ridges above Lake Siskiyou, one of the region's most popular recreation destinations near the city of Mt. Shasta. In a ruling issued on Wednesday, Judge Dena Coggins of the Eastern District of California vacated a “Biological Opinion” issued by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, finding the deficiencies in the document to be sufficiently meaningful that the document needed to be thrown out.

Tannery Gulch Campground could look very different by fall. Last week, EPIC joined Forest Service staff; members of the Trinity County Collaborative; Trinity RCD; and about a dozen concerned campers, including a camp host with her two children, who's worked there for 15 years; and campers who've been coming for more than 50 years and have spent every summer of their lives here with their whole family. At one point, standing near one of the marked trees, the camp host told the

AB 2494 (Rogers) updates decades-old management objectives for California's demonstration state forests, including the addition of "durable onsite carbon storage and sequestration" (DOCSS) as a co-equal objective alongside biodiversity, wildfire resilience, recreation, and other public benefits.

Legislation Aligns Forest Management Objectives with Tribal Stewardship and Conservation Targets

A federal judge has struck down a U.S. Forest Service plan to log the forested ridges above Lake Siskiyou, one of the region's most popular recreation destinations near the city of Mt. Shasta.