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Teddy's Back - To Chime in on Colorado Roadless Plan

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Wednesday, August 20, 2008   

Durango, CO - A conservation legend is in Colorado to make a point about the state's roadless areas. An actor playing President Teddy Roosevelt will be on hand tonight at a USDA Forest Service open house in Durango. It's one of a series of meetings across the state on a new roadless area management plan proposed for nearly 4.5 million acres of backcountry.

Joel Webster, Roadless Initiative manager for the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership, says the way the plan stands now, it threatens to forever change wild places hunters and anglers enjoy, and that's something Teddy wouldn't be happy about.

"We want to make sure these acres stay the way they are, and Theodore Roosevelt is a real symbol of that legacy our forefathers left for us."

Webster and others are concerned because Forest Service projections show that, under the proposed plan, logging in Colorado's roadless areas would be roughly 10 times the levels allowed under the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. That's just one of the problems with the proposed rule, he says.

"It's really open-ended. There are lots of giveaways. If its real intention is to protect roadless area values, then there need to be some serious changes."

Kurt Kunkle, public lands inventory director for the Colorado Environmental Coalition, says another problem is that the draft includes what he calls "classic Washington double-talk."

"According to this plan, you can build a 'long-term temporary' road into a roadless area. However, the rule doesn't adequately define what a 'long-term temporary' road is -- it could be there for years and years and years."

Forest Service officials say the new proposal was created with lots of public input, but there's still time to give written comments. Public testimony is not allowed at the informational open houses, but written comments may be submitted until Oct. 23.

The Durango meeting starts at 5:00 PM tonight in the Fort Lewis College ballroom. A region-wide meeting will be held Thursday at 5:00 PM at the Marriott Denver West, Golden.




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