Otter-Wing Timber Sale: Facts about the sale, background information

A History of Roadless Areas

Roads Factsheet

:-) TOP TEN REASONS WHY WE SHOULD PROTECT ROADLESS AREAS

10) Because the Forest Service can't maintain the roads they already built. (32,900 miles in Montana, 380,000 miles nationwide)
9) To protect 42% of all Montana's remaining forest trails intact.
8) Because the government takes money out of our pockets to build the roads that ruin roadless backcountry.
7) Because Montana roadless areas are great places to hunt.
6) Because crystal-clear streams and rivers flow out of Montana's roadless mountain headwaters.
5) Because teenagers in trouble will turn their lives around in a Montana roadless area.
4) Because big and beautiful fish live there.
3) Because it's the right thing to do.
2) Because the U.S. Senate sure as hell won't do it.
1) So your kids can take their kids camping in Montana roadless areas.