Roadless Area Conservation - US Forest Service Roadless areas are on lands that are managed by the Forest Service to preserve the undeveloped character Roadless areas feature large areas of undisturbed soil, water, and forest vegetation Undisturbed landscapes are important to conserving biological diversity and providing ecological services
Roadless area conservation - Wikipedia Roadless area conservation is a conservation policy limiting road construction and the resulting environmental impact on designated areas of public land In the United States, roadless area conservation has centered on U S Forest Service areas known as inventoried roadless areas
Forest Service Inventoried Roadless Areas (IRAs) - Congress. gov Inventoried roadless areas (IRAs) are areas of the National Forest System (NFS) managed according to regulations, known as roadless rules, that generally limit timber harvesting and road building
Roadless Initiative – Roadless Initiative The planet’s remaining large and ecologically important tracts of roadless areas sustain key refugia for biodiversity and provide globally relevant ecosystem services Applying a 1-kilometer buffer to all roads, we present a global map of roadless areas and an assessment of their status, quality, and extent of coverage by protected areas
2001 Roadless Rule - US Forest Service The 2001 Roadless Rule establishes prohibitions on road construction, road reconstruction, and timber harvesting on 58 5 million acres of inventoried roadless areas on National Forest System lands
Roadless Area Conservation - Biological Diversity From the mystic wilds of the American Southwest and northern Rockies to the colorful deciduous woods of New England and the Appalachians, national forest roadless areas harbor some of America's last intact ecosystems