The Alaska Roadless Rule is an environmental conservation policy that placed significant restrictions on timber removal and road construction or reconstruction in Inventoried roadless areas, which protects about half of the Tongass National Forest and Chugach National Forest's 17 million acres.[1] The Alaska Roadless Rule stems directly from the Roadless area conservation rule in which the United States Forest Service identified areas of natural importance as Inventoried roadless areas and announced the Forest Service 2001 Roadless Rule.
The AlaskaRoadlessRule is an environmental conservation policy that placed significant restrictions on timber removal and road construction or reconstruction...
conservation of these efforts was the Forest Service 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (RoadlessRule). Access roads provide important access to emergency...
Society, Alaska Chapter, 2003. Comments to the Chief of the Forest Service on the exemption of the Tongass National Forest from the roadlessrule. Aug. 8...
These are not very popular due to the often remote and roadless locations. The University of Alaska, as a land grant university, also owns substantial acreage...
lower 48 states and Alaska. Idaho alone contains over 9 million acres (36,000 km2) of inventoried roadless areas. The inventoried roadless areas range from...
Supreme Court refused to allow Alaska an exemption for the Tongass National Forest from the RoadlessRule. This Forest Service rule limits road construction...
ConocoPhillips located on the plain of the North Slope of Alaska in the National Petroleum Reserve in Alaska entirely on wetlands. The project was originally to...
Tongass National Forest from the RoadlessRule, saying, "An exemption will not only bring great economic benefit to Alaska but will also help bolster the...
1971 Alaska Native Claims Settlement Act. Much of this area has been clearcut. The most controversial timber sales in the Tongass are in the roadless areas...
allow 2,400,000 acres (9,700 km2) of roadless old growth forest to be clear-cut. Stevens said this would revive Alaska's timber industry and bring jobs to...
Congress as S. 283 S. 1357, a bill to make the Roadless Area Conservation Rule inapplicable to land in Alaska included in the National Forest System, introduced...
establishing national forest wilderness areas identified by the Forest Service's Roadless Area Review and Evaluation (RARE) process. The Bureau of Land Management...
administration begins RoadlessRule do-over for Tongass". Alaska Public Media. Retrieved March 15, 2022. Fountain, Henry (November 25, 2020). "Alaska's Controversial...
The Wind River Indian Reservation established a 180,000-acre (730 km2) roadless area in the Wind River Range in the 1930s, several decades before the passage...
the ice, and around 3,000 kilometres (1,900 mi) of roadless swamped or freezing cold areas in Alaska and eastern Russia. No one has so far travelled all...
example, one criterion for wilderness is that it be roadless, and the act does not define the term roadless. Wilderness advocacy groups and some agency staff...
in fighting recent political efforts to reduce protection for America's roadless and undeveloped lands and wildlife. It was instrumental in the passage...
H.R. 279 January 12, 2021 Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2021 To provide lasting protection for inventoried roadless areas within the National Forest...
Carroll, Steven; Miller, Mark (2002). Wild Virginia: A Guide to Thirty Roadless Recreation Areas Including Shenandoah National Park. Guilford, CT: Globe...
"Anxious Dreams", Manchester Guardian, January 20), Harper's, August 1990 "Roadless Regions," Literary Outtakes, September 1990 "Passing Views," Harper's,...
2023. "Wood bison reintroduced in Southwest Alaska see another year of loss, but with a silver lining". Alaska Republic Media. 21 October 2020. Retrieved...
representatives of indigenous Alaskan Natives said a photo I.D. rule would impede voting in remote, roadless, Native majority areas, referred to as "the bush." Republican...
the Yakutat Tlingit Tribe, Final Report (FIS) Project 01-091, Yakutat, Alaska."Traditional Ecological Knowledge of Tlingit People Concerning the Sockeye...
Cristina Mittermeier, during the 8th World Wilderness Congress in Anchorage, Alaska. Prior to 2005 "conservation photography" was not widely recognized as a...
"volunteers to help identify, describe and protect wildland complexes and roadless areas in South America". The PBI "are engaged in an ambitious project with...
CONSERVATION THE NATURE CONSERVANCY and the U.S. FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE, ALASKA MARITIME NATIONAL WILDLIFE REFUGE. PREPARED BY THE ORNITHOLOGICAL COUNCIL...
five days after a court had ruled that Vail could proceed with its planned Category III expansion into the Two Elks Roadless Area, despite the objections...