Sunday, December 11, 2011

Roadless Area Conservation Act of 2011 Bill

Facts about the Bill

  1. One positive aspect of it is that it conserves roadless areas that have been used for Native American rituals or spiritual retreats.
  2. Will impact less than 0.5% of the nations timber supply.
  3. The term "roadless area characteristics" means resources or features that are often present in or characterize inventoried areas including: high quality undisturbed soil,water, or air, sources of public drinking water, and a diversity of plant and animal communities and so on.
  4. This bill would prohibit roads being constructed in an inventoried roadless are of the National Forest System, however there are exceptions.
  5. This also states that timber may not be cut, sold, or removed in any inventoried roadless area in the National Forest System.
Questions

  1. How do they intend to enforce the removal of timber?
  2. Who would be in charge of enforcing these regulations?
  3. What are some disadvantages of this this regulation?   

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