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The Forest Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture, is initiating a public rulemaking process to address the management of roadless areas on National Forest System lands within the State of Colorado. This rulemaking is the result of a petition submitted by Governor Bill Ritter on behalf of the State of Colorado pursuant to 7 CFR 1.28, reviewed and recommended by the Department's Roadless Area Conservation National Advisory Committee, and accepted by the Secretary. The State requests specific regulatory protections with certain management flexibility for the approximately four million acres of affected lands. The Forest Service will prepare an environmental impact statement to analyze and disclose potential environmental consequences associated with this rulemaking.
Knowledge graph centered on Roadless Area Conservation; National Forest System with 45 nodes and 84 connections. Top connected: Bureau of Land Management (implied via Federal Register), USDA Forest Service (Uncompahgre National Forest), Colorado Department of Wildlife (CDOW), U.S. Forest Service (Taylor River District), United States Department of Agriculture (implied AAA).
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