CONCORD — While the New Hampshire House of Representatives passed a resolution to support keeping the federal Roadless Rule on the 230,000 acres of White Mountain National Forest this past March, the Trump Administration is going forward with plans to dismantle the 2001 measure calling it a “one-size-fits-all” approach.
Some in New Hampshire, like the New Hampshire Timberland Owners Association and the Forest Society, agree with the Administration while the Sierra Club New Hampshire Chapter opposes the change.
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