America's Wild Roadless Areas Need Your Help
America's national forests contain millions of acres of roadless lands ... wild areas without the protection of designated wilderness. Every day, nearly 100 acres of national forest roadless land are lost to development in California, and that can't go on. Roadless areas are habitat for wildlife, a key source of clean drinking water and a refuge for people seeking peace and recreation.
Last year, President Clinton instructed the Forest Service to prepare a plan to protect up to 60 million acres of America's roadless forest areas. The draft plan was released in May, 2000. Public hearings also began in May, 2000.
Send a letter to the Forest Service and tell them you support ending road building, logging, ORV use, mining, grazing, and other forms of resource extraction in roadless areas. Tell them the roadless area policy must also apply to roadless areas 1,000 acres and greater in size (not just 5,000 acres and greater), and the policy must apply to the Tongass National Forest as well.
The deadline is July 17! Your letter is critically important! Send your letter to:
USDA Forest Service-CAET
Attn: Roadless
PO Box 221090
Salt Lake City, UT 84122
Fax: 877-703-2494
E-mail: roadlessdeis@fs.fed.us
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Just three miles off of Interstate 80, 
