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There’s a whole class of country that sits one rung below permanent Wilderness, the wilderness study areas and roadless backcountry the agencies have already judged wild enough to keep and have been holding intact until Congress can finish the job. The Trump administration has decided to throw all of it open for “review,” and the purpose of that review is to stop holding it intact and open it up to roads and machines, so the land is spoiled and can never qualify as Wilderness. They’re even going after country Congress already designated. And they slipped the whole thing out behind a press release about rock climbing.

The worst part is the protections they’re after don’t live in law. They live in policy the agencies can rewrite on their own, without a single vote in Congress, which is why this is moving so fast and so quietly. A 60-day public comment period is open now, through August 14, and it’s the one place your objection lands on the official record. That record is worth far more than it looks.

Comment Now to Save Wilderness Areas The Trump administration wants to prevent future wilderness areas from being made and change the management of current ones. Now is your only chance to comment.