Not only do conservatives want to protect the environment, we also want to avoid wasteful spending and bureaucracy. According to a 2020 study by Taxpayers for Common Sense, “over the past four decades the Forest Service had spent nearly $2 billion preparing and administering timber sales in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest—the largest U.S. National Forest and one of the areas protected under the Roadless Rule—while collecting just $227 million in receipts, for a net loss of roughly $1.73 billion in constant 2019 dollars.”