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The Fight to Protect Los Padres National Forest
The Trump Administration wants to eliminate decades-old rules that have prevented roads from being built in wilderness areas. Would it make it easier to fight devastating wildfires, as some argue? Or would it lead to renewed commercial logging in places like the Los Padres National Forest?
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