In January 2001, the U.S. Forest Service adopted the Roadless Area Conservation Rule that seeks to conserve a large portion of unprotected wildland on national forests for posterity. However, the Bush Administration has suspended the rule for an indefinite period of time. To exemplify the importance of roadless areas to conservation goals, TWS conducted a state-of-the-art landscape analyses in the Northern Rockies to investigate potential ecological impact of roadless areas.
