WASHINGTON, Aug. 29 -- Forest Service has issued a notice called: Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System Lands.
The notice was published in the Federal Register on Aug. 29 by Brooke Rollins, Secretary of Agriculture.
Summary: The U.S. Department of Agriculture is initiating an environmental impact statement (EIS) and rulemaking concerning management of inventoried roadless areas on approximately 44.7 million acres of National Forest System lands, including in Alaska. The proposed rule would rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (2001 Roadless Rule) (66 FR 3244, 36 CFR Subpart B (2001)), which prohibits road construction, road reconstruction, and timber harvesting in inventoried roadless areas, with li...