Factsheet on Travel Management on National Forests

• Tags: national forests, Travel Management

A coalition of over 100 local and national groups sent a letter to members of the House of Representatives asking them to oppose H.R. 1581, the Wilderness and Roadless Release Act.  If passed, the legislation would roll back existing protections and place at risk tens of millions more acres of wilderness-quality but unprotected National Forest and BLM public lands. It also prevents Congress or future administrations from using a national policy to protect these lands in the future.  

• Tags: BLM wildlands, national forests, Rep McCarthy, Wilderness and Roadless Release Act
• Related Campaigns: Wilderness

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