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• ↓ Update on Proposed Rescission of Roadless Rule: pdfs of all 2025 Tribal comments are available in Vol. III of the EIS
• ↓ USDA Proposes Rescinding Roadless Rule; What Tribes Told the Agency Last Fall, and What a Comment Can Still Do About It By the Sept. 21 Deadline
• ↓ New Mexico Federal Court Dismisses Pueblo of Santa Ana Land Dispute with Interior, Pueblo of Santa Ana
• ↓ N.R. v. Ellison: Another ICWA Challenge Seeks Supreme Court Review
• ↓ Spokane County Bar Assn. Indian Law Section Bar Prep Scholarship 2027
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"On August 20, 2026, USDA published a proposed rule to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which has restricted road construction, road reconstruction, and timber harvesting across approximately 44.7 million acres of National Forest System lands for the past quarter century. The proposal would replace the existing rule’s nationwide layer of protection and return more decisions about roadless areas to individual forest plans and project-level review."

"Alongside the proposed rule, USDA released a 333-page Draft Environmental Impact Statement, a cost-benefit and regulatory-flexibility analysis, and a Tribal Summary Impact Statement. (Links to these documents are below.)"

"Comments on the proposed rule are due September 21, 2026. The docket is FS-2025-0001."

"This isn’t the first time Tribes have weighed in. USDA’s August 2025 Notice of Intent opened a scoping comment period that drew more than 220,000 comments, with about 99% opposed to the rescission. Based on the ILPC’s analysis, the comments included 42 written submissions from 38 distinct Tribal governments and organizations. Scoping comments, however, only shape what an agency studies, and a court asked to review the eventual final rule will look at the record as it stands when the agency acts. As a result, the current 30-day comment period is fundamentally different from the one in 2025, since it’s the last opportunity to place Tribe-specific evidence, legal argument, and disagreement with USDA’s reasoning into the administrative record before the rule is finalized."

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Update on Proposed Rescission of Roadless Rule: pdfs of all 2025 Tribal comments are available in Vol. III of the EIS

USDA Proposes Rescinding Roadless Rule; What Tribes Told the Agency Last Fall, and What a Comment Can Still Do About It By the Sept. 21 Deadline

New Mexico Federal Court Dismisses Pueblo of Santa Ana Land Dispute with Interior, Pueblo of Santa Ana

N.R. v. Ellison: Another ICWA Challenge Seeks Supreme Court Review

Spokane County Bar Assn. Indian Law Section Bar Prep Scholarship 2027