Challenge:

Roadless areas contain the best remaining fish and wildlife habitat in the country and provide sportsmen with high-quality hunting and fishing opportunities on public lands. While roads are important for providing access to lands where we recreate, they increase big-game vulnerability and often result in shorter seasons and fewer available tags. Too many roads also can decrease the quality of important spawning habitat for wild trout, salmon and steelhead.

Roadless area management has remained unsettled for the past 30 years, and forces are constantly at work to fragment many of the remaining backcountry lands on which sportsmen depend – leaving an uncertain future for some of America’s best public-lands hunting and fishing.

Strategy:

The TRCP's approach is guided by the Roadless Initiative Working Group, whose work is founded in the TRCP roadless initiative principles. By working with individual sportsmen, local groups and businesses, Western governors and national decision makers, the TRCP is ensuring that sportsmen’s priorities are considered as the future management of our roadless areas is determined. Additionally, by combining the expertise of the working group with an active network of sportsmen and businesses, the TRCP is working to support backcountry conservation.

Action:

American sportsmen have the opportunity to weigh in on ongoing national deliberations about the future of our 58.5 million acres of national forest roadless areas. The TRCP is working to influence decision makers across the country, but we need your help to assure that our backcountry resources are managed in a way that sustain fish and wildlife populations.

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