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The 2001 Roadless Rule protects about 45 million acres of national forest from new road construction and most logging.

The rule allows for exceptions already—wildfire management, valid existing rights, and other specific circumstances—so it's already a durable framework that has worked for two decades.

Lands provide irreplaceable ecological value that new roads would compromise.

Roadless areas serve as the last strongholds for clean drinking water, functioning as natural filtration systems for the more than 25 million Americans.

Land provides critical habitat and connectivity corridors for wildlife. Roads fragment these ecosystems, introduce invasive species, increase erosion and sedimentation, and create access points for the kind of disturbance that pushes sensitive species toward decline.

USFS already maintains a road system of roughly 370,000 miles with a maintenance backlog in the billions of dollars. Adding new roads into remaining roadless areas would deepen an already unsustainable liability.

Intact backcountry areas drive real economic activity of their own: hunting, fishing, hiking, and other forms of recreation tied to undeveloped landscapes support hundreds of thousands of jobs and billions in economic output in rural gateway communities.

Intact, unfragmented forests store more carbon, buffer downstream communities against flooding, and in many cases are more resistant to the catastrophic, high-severity wildfires - studies have shown roads are a leading vector for human-caused ignitions.

The Roadless Rule was the product more than 1.6 million comments, the overwhelming majority in support.