A decade after it was first adopted by the U.S. Forest Service, the Roadless Area Conservation Rule has proven to be remarkably successful in protecting the 58.5 million acres of national forest roadless areas from road building and logging. Only about 75 miles of road building has occurred in the roadless areas – far less than the Forest Service had predicted a decade ago -- and just a miniscule fraction of the unroaded forests has been logged, mostly in Alaska’s Tongass National Forest.

• Tags: 2001 roadless area conservation rule, alaska, Bush administration, California, clean water, Colorado, Idaho, logging, mining, Montana, motorized recreation, national forests, New Mexico, Oregon, roadless area, roadless forests, Roadless Rule, Tongass National Forest, U.S. Forest Service, Utah, Washington, Wyoming
• Related Campaigns: Roadless Forests

This series of maps illustrates National Landscape Conservation System locations, made up of the gems within our public lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management.

• Tags: Arizona, California, Colorado, Idaho, map, Montana, National Landscape Conservation System, Nevada, New Mexico, NLCS, Oregon, Utah, Wyoming
• Related Campaigns: National Landscape Conservation System, Wilderness

On  October 14, 2009, Judge Lynn Winmill granted our motion to not allow grazing on one of the last remaining BLM domestic sheep grazing allotments in the Salmon River corridor due to domestic/bighorn sheep conflicts. The turnout date was supposed to be October 15, and this represents the first time the allotment has ever been closed since the 1930’s. For the time being, this will effectively end all public lands domestic sheep grazing on public land in the main Salmon River corridor where the highest threat to bighorn sheep exists.

• Tags: BLM, court decision, decision, grazing, Idaho, sheep
• Related Campaigns: BLM Action Center