The Trump administration Tuesday advanced plans to open nearly 45 million acres of wilderness in national forests to road construction and logging. The U.S. Forest Service proposal would undo the 2001 “roadless rule,” a Clinton-era regulation meant to keep those tracts undeveloped. President Trump has been pressuring the agency to increase logging and thin forests. Drew McConville, a senior fellow at the Center for American Progress, said, “By ripping protections from some of our oldest intact forests, the Trump administration is endangering the drinking water supplies of tens of millions and threatening wildlife habitats and recreation opportunities in almost every state.”