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America's Roadless Areas -- Idaho’s Roadless Backcountry
Roadless Areas -- Idaho’s Roadless Backcountry Join The Heritage Forests Campaign Tell-a-Friend Let your friends know about Heritage Forests Campaign Protecting America's National Forests is a reference guide to the Roadless Rule, which protects our last wild forests from logging, drilling, and mining. Idaho’s Roadless Backcountry Background In 2006, the Governor ...
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Roadless lands of Greater Yellowstone
The roadless backcountry of Greater Yellowstone forms the headwaters of the region’s cleanest streams, ... water for drinking and irrigation. As a result, roadless areas are magnets for hunting, fishing and recreation. These backcountry lands help support guiding and outfitting, and contribute ...
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Wilderness News | Campaign for America's Wilderness
Uncompahgre Plateau's canyonlands. Read more >> OPINION: Washington takes aim at Colorado's backcountry August 12th, 2008 Denver Post (CO) Sunday, August 10, 2008 Jason Sorter If Coloradans ... . Given these abundant outdoor opportunities - Colorado has 4.4 million acres of national forest roadless backcountry - a finer place to experience America's sporting heritage would be hard to find. ...
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Heritage Forests Campaign News Release
Idaho. Idaho’s roadless backcountry areas are some of the nation’s last intact national ... that retains “natural processes and roadless characteristics.” (DEIS 2.5 p. 72) Current law protects all 9.3 million acres of Idaho’s roadless backcountry. Six million acres, is an area ...
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Roadless rule is tossed out again - Los Angeles Times
Bush administration decided not to appeal and instead issued its own rules for roadless areas. Conservation groups and attorneys general from Oregon, Washington, California and New Mexico later challenged ... draft rule for the state's roadless backcountry in September and send it to President Bush for approval. Idaho is home to 9.3 million acres of roadless lands. "My assumption is they ...
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Quimby/Gardner Land Swap Will Protect Wassataquoik Stream and Land East of Baxter Park
Big Robar Pond. Farther west, the forest is noticeably older, he said. The roadless area extends west from the pond about 3.5 miles to the boundary with Baxter ... got the short end of the stick." (LURC rejected a proposal from Gardner to subdivide backcountry ponds north of Baxter Park in 1996). Wassataquoik advocates began mounting an anti-bridge campaign ...
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High Stakes Negotiations Over Fate of Katahdin Lake Tract
The company tried to subdivide the shorefront of several backcountry ponds north of Baxter Park in 1996, but LURC rejected the application. Developing pristine Katahdin ... out Gardner, even if it was a risky financial move. "This parcel has the largest roadless, relatively intact old growth forest left in Maine unprotected, and it is too rare, too ...
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press releases
Idaho Backcountry Mar. 19, 2008 PDF Adminstration gives up appeal on forest planning rule Jan. 16, 2008 PDF 2007 Spotted owls to be made optional? June 26, 2007 PDF The Roadless Area ... 20, 2006 PDF press releases from our coalition partners Western citizens seek to reinstate roadless area protections: Roadless repeal challenged October 6, 2005 PDF Oil drilling will expand into pristine areas of ...
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WEUArchive
Backcountry 01/10/06 - Problems with Oil from Shale 01/03/06 - Happy New Year! A Review of 2005 2005 12/27/05 - Clean Air Problems in Utah 12/13/05 - Roadless ... on the Bonneville Shoreline Trail 06/14/05 - Wind Power 06/07/05 - Backcountry Volunteers 05/31/05 - Roadless Area Conservation Rule 05/24/05 - Grandeur Peak Access 05/17/05 - EPA ...
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IMBA News: Action Alerts: Precedent Threatens Backcountry Singletrack (08-30-06)
Action Alerts: Precedent Threatens Backcountry Singletrack (08-30-06) Precedent Threatens Backcountry Singletrack Action Alert For Immediate Release 08-30-06 Contact: Drew Vankat drewimba.com ... is very important to mountain bikers. These lands are roadless, free of development or resource extraction, and loaded with miles of backcountry singletrack and scenery to explore. Most national forests ...
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