Oct 8, 2026 · 45 min · 14 segments
Aaron and Kate talk to Lexi Tuddenham, executive director of HEAL Utah, about Utah’s push to promote nuclear development and how it intersects with public lands. We also…
Lexi TuddenhamGuest
Kate GroetzingerHostAaron WeissHostThe comment period for the Trump administration's proposal to repeal the roadless rule just closed this week, and that's a resounding no from me, dog.
Uh, CWP, we went through every comment posted by the Forest Service online, adding up to about 600,000 total when you count up all the attachments that we downloaded, and of those 99.1% of commenters oppose the repeal.
Uh, that's a half a million people telling the Forest Service to keep those protections in place for more than 44 million acres of national forest across the country.
Last year, when the Trump administration first proposed getting rid of the roadless rule, more than 99% of those comments, another 200,000 there, opposed that idea according to our analysis of the comments then.
The Trump administration keeps claiming that repealing the rule is about wildfire, but the public isn't buying it.
Uh, the Forest Service, of course, did conduct its own environmental analysis, and it doesn't support this idea either.
It shows that the agency's preferred option, which is to say getting rid of the roadless rule, would raise the risk of wildfire starts, and deliver only modest fuel reduction benefits.
Um, and if you hear a bigger number of comments, over one million submitted, um, our partners counted up how many comments they, um, collected and submitted, um, in support of keeping this rule in place, and not all of those comments have been posted by the Forest Service yet, which is why they don't show up in our analysis.
But we, um, fully believe them, and we think that the number's probably higher than 99.1. Just-
The comment period for the Trump administration's proposal to repeal the roadless rule just closed this week, and that's a resounding no from me, dog.
Uh, CWP, we went through every comment posted by the Forest Service online, adding up to about 600,000 total when you count up all the attachments that we downloaded, and of those 99.1% of commenters oppose the repeal.
Uh, that's a half a million people telling the Forest Service to keep those protections in place for more than 44 million acres of national forest across the country.
Last year, when the Trump administration first proposed getting rid of the roadless rule, more than 99% of those comments, another 200,000 there, opposed that idea according to our analysis of the comments then.
The Trump administration keeps claiming that repealing the rule is about wildfire, but the public isn't buying it.
Uh, the Forest Service, of course, did conduct its own environmental analysis, and it doesn't support this idea either.
It shows that the agency's preferred option, which is to say getting rid of the roadless rule, would raise the risk of wildfire starts, and deliver only modest fuel reduction benefits.
Um, and if you hear a bigger number of comments, over one million submitted, um, our partners counted up how many comments they, um, collected and submitted, um, in support of keeping this rule in place, and not all of those comments have been posted by the Forest Service yet, which is why they don't show up in our analysis.
But we, um, fully believe them, and we think that the number's probably higher than 99.1. Just-
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