Join Us for a Webinar
Join The Wild Idea Community Webinar for a thorough history of the Forest Service Roadless Rule, the values the rule protects, and the current proposed rescission of the rule. This webinar will provide a chance for community questions, deep analysis and guides to having your voice heard.
March 10th at 1pm Mountain Time, on Zoom
The Roadless Rule – A policy of the United States Forest Service since 2001 – has played an important role in keeping American commitments to preserving wildlands for the benefit of this and future generations, for wildlife that depend on critical habitat for
survival, and for the myriads of other intrinsic and tangible values that inspire our better instincts.
There are just under 60 million acres in the roadless system, and these lands are at risk of returning to the economics of extraction because of the proposed rescission of the rule itself.
Join us for this presentation that will cover how the rule came to be, what the legal standing of the rule has been for public lands, how tribal nations have seen the rule protect treaty rights, and how these acres contribute to a healthy and growing outdoor recreation economy. We will also explore some of the arguments that the U.S. Department of Agriculture is using to justify the repeal of this popular rule with leading Forest Ecologists. We will share maps that show how roadless acres support recovering wildlife populations, and we will discuss the ways the public can stand up for the rule in the weeks ahead.
This webinar is free, will feature questions from those that attend and will be 90 minutes in length.
Scheduled to appear:
- Chris Wood – CEO of Trout Unlimited
- Greg Aplet – Senior Forest Scientist of The Wilderness Society
- Annie Nyborg – Chair of The Conservation Alliance
- Martin Nie – Professor, Natural Resource Policy; Director, Bolle Center for People and Forests at The University of Montana
- Monte Mills – Director, Native American Law Center, Charles I. Stone Professor of Law at the University of Washington
- Mike Dombeck – Retired Chief of the United States Forest Service
- And more!
What is The Wild Idea?
Humans have been part of Earth’s natural cycle for 300,000 years, with brains much the same as ours for the past 100,000 or so. What’s evolved isn’t our biology but how we understand our place in the natural world. As small populations grew into communities and then into societies, we created cultural, religious, and legal frameworks to help explain and define our connection to the rest of life on Earth.
