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Travel Analysis Best Practices: A Review of Completed Travel Analysis Process Reports PDF

Whether its water, wildlife, or wildlands, roads have been identified as the major impact on the forest environment. Many national forest roads were built during the frenzied decades of the logging boom and were simply abandoned. The Forest Service currently has around 375,000 miles of known system roads – enough to travel around the earth 15 times. Many of these roads are unneeded, causing tremendous environmental damage, and should be reclaimed and reforested.

Reconnecting the Landscape: A Transportation Management Opportunity in the Boise National Forest PDF

The Boise National Forest (BNF), which encompasses 2.6 million acres in Idaho, is home to over 300 species of vertebrates, including elk, wolves, and bears that need large areas of intact habitat to survive. The forest harbors a variety of plant and animal species listed as endangered, threatened, or sensitive under the federal Endangered Species Act. Its 7,600 miles of streams and 250 lakes and reservoirs provide a continuous supply of water to the Snake and Salmon River Basins. The BNF also contains 5,477 miles of inventoried roads.