A crowd of about 120 people bless a totem pole and 10 cedar masks carved by the Lummi Nation’s House of Tears outside of the Capitol building in Olympia on Sept. 8, 2025, as part of the Indigenous-led campaign “Xaalh and the Way of the Masks.” The totem and masks will travel 1,700 miles between rally sites in Washington and Oregon before being given to the Lower Elwha Klallam Tribe west of Port Angeles on Sept. 20. Photo by Emily Fitzgerald/Washington State Standard.

By Emily Fitzgerald, Washington State Standard

Washington tribal leaders and environmental advocates are speaking out against the Trump administration’s plan to repeal protections for 2 million acres of national forests in the state.

The U.S. Forest Service has proposed scrapping the so-called Roadless Rule: a federal regulation established in 2001 that prohibits road construction, logging, and mining across millions of acres of national forest land. The rollback would end protections for about 45 million acres…

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