Posted on 10/10/2015 12:08:43 PM PDT by george76
accounting for roads that have been decommissioned along with roads considered “unauthorized,” the mileage of road closures on U.S. Forest Service (USFS) land in Montana balloons to 21,951 miles.
On Monday, Media Trackers reported that a study commissioned by the state legislature earlier this year and reported to the EQC last week found that 9,784 — or nearly 31 percent — of the nearly 32,000 miles of roads in Montana managed by the USFS were “level 1 roads,” meaning they are closed to motorized traffic and only open for “administrative use.” However, the 32,000 total miles of roads does not include the 5,796 miles of officially decommissioned roads or the estimated 6,191 miles of “unauthorized” roads.
Counting the decommissioned and unauthorized roads in the total, there are 21,951 miles of closed roads on USFS managed land. There are 22,047 miles of roads open to motorized traffic. By this measure, nearly half of the road mileage under the control of the USFS is closed.
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AGENDA 21 on the move
...and creating the circumstances that have people moving into the cities...
They are doing thi gs like “road diets” which takes existing paved roadways with 3 lanes and cutting it down to 1 lane plus a bus only lane and a bike lane thus making traffic so horrible that as the populations turns over people choose to live in the city instead of in a suburb a mere 15 miles away.
there is a sequester
there must be cuts
the actions noted can produce a portion of the USFS needed budget reductions
Old roads can be walked on or used by horses
“What kind of rig do you have?”
1966 FJ40
Cool. I’ve got a 94 jeep Cherokee and an 89 full size Bronco.
For the past 40 years here there have been wilderness study areas with severe road and use restrictions. This year Obama created three big new wilderness areas that didn’t include all the wilderness study areas. Naturally, the locals said ok, now get rid of those study areas since you have your wilderness. Oh no, that will take a long time to do, if we can do it at all.
The federal land grabbers too often close off public lands using scams like wilderness study areas * as if * Congress had acted.
Cool. I have a 2008 FJ cruiser. Gets me around northern Michigan and starts at -30 temps.
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