; and it limits public participation by reducing the number of environmental project reviews. (ii) On April 21, 2008, the Department of Agriculture issued a Final Planning Rule and Record of Decision for National Forest System Land Management Planning. Similar to rules enacted by the Administration on January 5, 2005, later remanded back to the agency in Federal district court for violating the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969, the Endangered Species Act of 1973, and the Administrative Procedure Act ( Citizens for Better Forestry v. United States Department of Agriculture , 481 F. Supp. 2d 1059 (N.D. Cal. 2007)), this revised rule eliminates strict forest planning standards established in 1982, and opens millions of acres of public lands to damaging and invasive logging, mining, and drilling operations. These regulations would reverse more than 20 years of protection for wildlife and national forests by removing the overall goal of ensuring ecological sustainability in managing the national forest system, weakening the National Forest Management Act of 1976, and effectively ending the review of forest management plans under the National Environmental Policy Act of 1969. (iii) On September 20, 2006, the District Court for the Northern District of California vacated the Protection of Inventoried Roadless Areas rule, enacted on May 13, 2005, which gave State Governors 18 months to petition the Federal Government to either restore the previous rule for their States, or submit a new management and development plan for national forest areas inventoried under the rule. Despite the enjoinment of the Administration’s 2005 rule, and the subsequent restoration of the original Roadless Area Conservation Rule, the United States Forest Service has continued to allow States to petition for a special rule under the authority of the Administrative Procedure Act, publishing a final special rule for Idaho on October 16, 2008. As a result, 58.5 million acres of wild national forests are still vulnerable to logging, road