Roads
Legal Cases related to roads
Legal Cases related to roads
- Photo by C. Frissell, PRC
- Challenging the BLM's Western Oregon Plan Revisions
- The BLM pulled its Oregon lands out from the protection of the NW Forest Plan and its Aquatic Conservation Strategy. PRC challenged the BLM's new plans to prevent increased timber harvest along streams and many new miles of roads.
- Reinstating the Roadless Rule
- The Forest Service's repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule was illegal. Through both this case, and through our intervention in the case brought by Wyoming, PRC is working to continue to protect roadless areas, and the sensitive species that depend on them through the Roadless Rule.
- Defending the 2001 Roadless Rule
- The Roadless Area Conservation Rule, adopted in 2001 with unprecedented public support, put severe limits on new road construction and logging in nearly 60 million acres of currently roadless forestlands. The State of Wyoming, however, is seeking to overturn the rule nationwide to allow more roadbuilding in our National Forests.
- Protecting Sierra Nevada’s Fragile Watersheds
- For many years the Pacific Rivers Council has worked diligently with the Forest Service, independent scientists, and fellow conservationists to ensure that watersheds in the Sierra Nevada are managed in an ecologically sound manner.
