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Inventoried Roadless Areas are a group of United States Forest Service lands that have been identified by government reviews as lands without existing roads that could be suitable for roadless area conservation as wilderness or other non-standard protections.〔(Forest Service Roadless Website )〕 The Inventoried Roadless areas include approximately of land in 40 states and Puerto Rico. Most of these lands are in the western portion of the lower 48 states and Alaska.〔Maps of inventoried roadless areas: (US Forest Service Maps ); 〕 Idaho alone contains over of inventoried roadless areas.〔Idaho Roadless Areas Maps: (USFS )〕 The inventoried roadless areas range from large unroaded areas with wilderness characteristics to small tracts of land that are immediately adjacent to wilderness areas, parks and other protected lands. ==Roadless Area Review and Evaluations (RARE)== The first review of Forest Service roadless lands was started in 1967 after the creation of the Wilderness Act by Congress in 1964. This effort was called the “Roadless Area Review and Evaluation” or “RARE I”, and culminated in 1972 with a finding that that were suitable to be designated as wilderness. The RARE I recommendations were abandoned by the Forest Service after courts ruled that the agency had not sufficiently complied with the regulations of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA). A second roadless inventory, RARE II, was initiated in 1977, which culminated in a recommendation of wilderness designation for of national forest land and further study for another .〔(Roadless Area Review and Evaluation II (RARE II) (Forest Service) * *very large! - 52mb * * )〕 This set of recommendations was also quickly challenged in the courts and largely voided as a result.〔(Traveling in opposite directions: roadless area management under the Clinton and Bush Administrations.(Public Lands Management at the Crossroads: Balancing Interests in the 21st century). ) Robert L. Glicksman. Environmental Law 34.4 (Fall 2004)〕 抄文引用元・出典: フリー百科事典『 ウィキペディア（Wikipedia）』 ■ウィキペディアで「Inventoried roadless area」の詳細全文を読む スポンサード リンク
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