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Legal Status of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule PDF

Roadless Area Conservation Policy Chronology PDF

This chronology covers the history of roadless areas. View the legal status of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.

The Roadless Rule: A Tenth Anniversary Assessment PDF

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.

Protecting New Hampshire’s Wild Places PDF

Covering almost 800,000 acres in New Hampshire and Maine, the White Mountain National Forest (WMNF) contains some of the most untamed country remaining in the Northeast – yet the Forest Service is approving more destructive logging projects on this single protected “roadless” forests than it has for the rest of the entire country combined.

A Decade of National Forest Roadless Area Conservation: Background Paper PDF

This paper examines the progress of the U.S. Forest Service's roadless area conservation policy on its 10-year anniversary, January 22, 2008. These national forest roadless areas provide exeptional recreation, wildlife and fish habitat, clean water, and other important ecoysytem services to all Americans on over 58.5 million acres. The Roadless Area Conservation Rule has faced extensive, ongoing challenges since its creation.

United States Judge Reinstates Clinton Roadless Rule PDF

Roadless Areas: The Missing Link in Conservation - An Analysis of Biodiversity and Landscape Connectivity in the Northern Rockies PDF

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.

Economic Values of Protecting Roadless Areas in the United States PDF

In October 1999, President Clinton directed the U.S. Forest Service to assess future management options for approximately 54 million acres of roadless lands on national forests in this country. This assessment is part of an overall evaluation of the environmental consequences stemming from the current 380,000-plus miles of roads on the national forests, particularly in relation to the budgets for maintaining those roads.