Last week, the National Congress of American Indians, along with The Wilderness Society, hosted a webinar examining the proposed Roadless Rule. Designed for Tribal leaders, advocates, and community members, this session offered its participants the knowledge and tools needed to understand the changes and make their voices heard.
They directed all of its participants to the Roadless Rule Tribal Hub, a one-stop shop for all Native communities needing to prepare for and defend The Roadless Rule from being rescinded.
What’s Recently Changed with the Roadless Rule?
On August 20, the U.S. Department of Agriculture proposed ending the 2001 Roadless Rule. If the rule ends, decisions about roads and logging in those areas would be made forest by forest by local Forest Service offices. Comments are due by 11:59 p.m. Eastern on Tuesday, October 6, 2026. Read more about it here.
What Is the Roadless Rule Tribal Hub?
“The Roadless Rule Tribal Hub gathers the federal record, legal analysis, and adaptable drafting resources in one place so tribal governments can engage in this rulemaking on their own terms and timelines. Everything here is organized around a practical question: What does a tribal government need to decide what to do and act on that decision within the deadlines the agency has set?
The materials are available for tribal governments to adapt to their own geography, treaty status, priorities, and governmental processes. Each tribal government determines its own position, asks, and timing. Nothing on this site presumes what that position should be, and tribal governments hold a range of positions on the Roadless Rule.
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Against the Current Consulting, a Native-led public affairs firm, maintains the Hub with support from The Wilderness Society and contributions from attorneys, academics, and tribal natural resource staff. Content is sourced to the agency’s own documents wherever possible, and citations are provided so that any tribal government’s counsel can check the source directly.”