Roads
Legal Cases related to roads
Legal Cases related to roads
- Photo by C. Frissell, PRC
- Preventing the Resurrection of WOPR
- Members of the timber industry are seeking to resurrect WOPR, despite the fact that the Obama administration withdrew the plan as legally indefensible. PRC moved to intervene in this case to ensure that the aquatic protections of the Northwest Forest Plan remain in place on BLM forests in Western Oregon.
- 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.
