editor's note: What follows is about Wild West activist Aaron Kindle's project to protect roadless areas in Idaho.
The Forest Service is accepting comments on the draft plan for Idaho's roadless areas until April 7, 2008. So even if you can't make Howie's program please send comments to:
Roadless Area Conservation-Idaho
PO Box 162909
Sacramento, CA 95816-2909
or email: IDcomments@fsroadless.org
You can learn more at: www.roadless.fs.fed.us/idaho
Or contact the WildWest Institute at 542.7343
Or email aaroninthewild@yahoo.com
Background information:
Idaho is blessed with over 9.3 million acres
of roadless, backcountry national forest
areas. In 2001, the national Roadless Area
Conservation Rule was developed to
protect all remaining national forest
roadless areas around the country.
Unfortunately, within days of taking office
the Bush Administration set out to
dismantle this rule and replace it with a
state by state process in an attempt to
assert state power over federal lands and
open up our remaining wildlands to
roadbuilding, logging and mining.
While the U.S. Supreme Court recently upheld the original Roadless Rule and reasserted it as law, the Bush Administration, Forest Service and Governor of Idaho are still needlessly moving forward with efforts to weaken protections for nearly 6 millions of acres of roadless lands in Idaho by allowing logging, mining and other damages to some of the last remaining pristine landscapes in the US and the world.
