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Home » Press Releases » Gov. Evers: Sends letter urging Trump administration to halt plans to rescind 2001 rule affecting the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, emphasizes potential environmental impacts
MADISON — Gov. Tony Evers today, during Earth Week, sent a letter to U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Secretary Brooke Rollins expressing his concerns with the USDA’s proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Rule, which would impact nearly 70,000 acres of land in the Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest in Northern Wisconsin...