The Roadless Area Conservation act will provide long term protection for inventoried roadless areas by the US Forest Service. These inventoried roadless areas possess social and ecological values and characteristics that are becoming scarce in our Nation’s increasingly developed landscape.

According to the US Forest Service, inventoried roadless areas provide benefits to over 220 wildlife species listed as threatened, endangered, or proposed by the Endangered Species Act – approximately 25% of all animal species and 13% of all plant species.