However, recent news is showing that much of this federally protected land is at risk of degradation as the Trump administration is radically altering public land protections, according to local conservation groups. Recommended wilderness is land that does not currently have the congressional designation to be called Wilderness but is treated as such when managed by the Forest Service until Congress acts. “We’re seeing that kind of across the board, through public lands rule, and the roadless rule, and just kind of chipping away at longstanding safeguards.” “This is an example of the Trump administration taking the public out of public land management,” said Scott Fitzwilliams, the former USFS supervisor for the White River National Forest. “I really hope to not see these things come to fruition and throw our public lands management into relative chaos — you can’t have every single use on every single acre.”