At this critical moment, we must fight for conservation. Not just for the millions of Americans who support preserving our public lands now, but for the future generations who deserve access to the landscapes, wildlife and opportunities that the Roadless Rule protects.
Fight for conservation and preserve public lands protected by the Roadless Rule for current and future generations.
Occurrences
To combat the Administration's actions, I have cosponsored the Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2025 to codify the 2001 Roadless Rule.
“For 25 years, the Roadless Rule has demonstrated that protecting America’s national forest lands is both effective and widely supported. Rescinding the Roadless Rule would ignore this overwhelming public consensus while undermining Virginia’s drinking water, biodiversity, local economies, and public safety,” the lawmakers concluded . “We urge the Department to withdraw this dangerous proposal and maintain the Roadless Area Conservation Rule of 2001 in its entirety.”
Evidence
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Her official House site says McClellan joined members of Congress and advocates in broad opposition to the Trump administration's plan to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
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USDA said the rescission proposal would apply to nearly 45 million acres of inventoried roadless areas and move the Roadless Rule rescission process forward.
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The proposed rule would rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule by removing and reserving 36 CFR part 294, subpart B.
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Congresswoman Jennifer McClellan (VA-04) led 7 Members of the Virginia delegation — including U.S. Senators Mark Warner (D-VA) and Tim Kaine (D-VA), and Representatives Bobby Scott (VA-03), Don Beyer (VA-08), Eugene Vindman (VA-07), Suhas Subramanyam (VA-10) and James Walkinshaw (VA-11) — in sending a letter to Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins in strong opposition to the Trump Administration’s proposal to rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule
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We urge the Department to withdraw this dangerous proposal and maintain the Roadless Area Conservation Rule of 2001 in its entirety.
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The Department is extending the comment period by 15 days to allow the public additional time to submit comments. The new deadline for comments is October 6, 2026.
Assessments
The verified commitment was specifically to urge USDA to withdraw the rescission proposal and maintain the 2001 Roadless Rule. Verified passages show McClellan led a Virginia delegation letter opposing rescission and that the letter directly urged the Department to withdraw the proposal and maintain the rule. This fulfills the action commitment, without relying on proof that USDA ultimately preserved the rule.
McClellan took a concrete federal action consistent with the promise by publicly joining congressional opposition to rescinding the Roadless Rule, which shows real effort to fight for conservation. But the available evidence does not show that she secured the promised preservation outcome: the federal rescission process was still advancing, so the protections were not clearly preserved. That supports partial credit for meaningful advocacy in a later term, not full delivery.