IOW, be careful what you ask for...
Folks, in my opinion your criticisms are misplaced. Those areas that are being kept roadless are not areas where young kids would be going on camping trips anyway. That’s not the problem.
I’ve been a Cub Scout or Boy Scout leader for 15 years. There are plenty of state parks, etc., that there’s good access to and that the kids can have a good time in. We go camping every month and we have no problems in finding places to go. The problem is that the parents don’t want to take the effort to tear their kid away from his game controller, TV and iPods and get them outdoors, especially if it means that they’ll have to take the time to do it with them.
I can really get off a rant on this; the parents who PROUDLY state “To me, roughing it means room service”, who see deadly risk in every single aspect of going outdoors, who think that somehow their kid is different than every other kid Scouting has been able somehow to deal with for the last 98 years and “he can’t do that”, who have waited hand and foot on their kids for their whole lives and thus can’t adjust to cooking their own food and (horror!) cleaning up their own dishes, etc., etc.
Sorry, folks. I know the mindset on this blog. But this can’t be laid at the feet of the environmentalists. It’s the parents. I’ve been working with (and against!) it for 15 years.