Americans collectively own 58.5 million acres of roadless forest lands. These are lands on national forests that have no roads, mining, industry or other development.
In early March a Wyoming federal district judge officially lifted a nationwide injunction that had blocked the U.S. Forest Service from implementing the roadless rule.
More than ten years after President Clinton banned roads and logging on the last roadless areas on our nation’s forests, the Tenth Circuit Court of Appeals has the final say — 49 million acres of America’s national forests will remain wild under the Roadless Rule.
Roadless forests in Colorado, aka., the most pristine and exceptional forests lands in the state, are about to get a bad break—unless we can convince the Forest Service otherwise.
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.
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.
