Roads

For more than 20 years, travel management rules have provided a common-sense approach: local land managers work with communities and forest users to identify which roads, trails, and areas are open to motorized vehicles. The result is a clearly mapped system that provides dependable motorized access while protecting wildlife, water, and plants on our public

The Roadless Rule, enacted in 2001, sets aside wild areas in our national forests from road-building and industrial logging for wildlife, watershed conservation, and outdoor recreation. In the decades since these forests have enjoyed roadless protections, their trees have matured, safe from the clutches of chainsaws or the crush of bulldozers. Snakes and other wild