The Roadless rule prohibits, as the name implies, road construction, and it also prohibits, effectively, timber harvesting on nearly 59 million acres of National Forest System lands, including 60% of the forest Service land in Utah. By the way, That 59 million acres represents nearly 10% of the total federal land footprint. This is a significant amount of land. Now, while the intent of the original roadless rule may well have been to preserve the environment in practical effect, in many ways it's done the opposite of that. (00:32–00:39)
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Asserts that the Roadless rule affects nearly 10% of federal land.
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