Understanding the Roadless Rule. Take Action Today!

Backcountry Hunters & Anglers Podcast & Blast with Hal Herring

Zack Williams

Outdoors, Wilderness, Sports, Fishing, Outdoor, Hunting, Sports & Recreation

4.6 • 853 Ratings

🗓️ 17 September 2025

⏱️ 65 minutes

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Summary

The U.S. Department of Agriculture is taking public comments on the proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Rule, which affects 45 million acres of our national forests. Why is this such a big deal? Why are we throwing this baby out with the bathwater?

Join Hal and Trout Unlimited President and CEO Chris Wood, who knows this subject inside and out and was working for the U.S. Forest Service in the late 1990s--when the Roadless Rule was created after decades of study, conflict, watershed failures, and the quest for both balance and fiscal responsibility in public lands’ management.

You'll learn why the Roadless Rule is not only essential to conserving the backcountry experiences we cherish but also the fiscally responsible way to manage these intact landscapes.

And then join BHA in opposition to rescinding the Roadless Rule and ask your member of Congress to instead support the Roadless Area Conservation Act, legislation that would codify the Roadless Rule as law by visiting BHA's Take Action center. Comments are only open until Midnight, September 19th. So don't delay!

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0:00.0	But the real reason that we went forward with the roadless rule, it was simply the rule of holes.
0:10.0	When you dig a hole that's too deep and you can't get out of it, put down the shovel.
0:15.0	Just put down the shovel. We wanted to put down the shovel and try to restore some balance to the thing.
0:28.1	The roadless rule is silent on off-road vehicles. If the forest that you're in allows you to go into the roadless areas with your off-road vehicle, there's nothing in the roadless rule that
0:32.1	stops you from doing that. And it doesn't do anything to stop mining. It doesn't do anything
0:36.9	to stop oil and gas development. It doesn't do anything to stop any of It doesn't do anything to stop boiling gas development.
0:38.4	It doesn't do anything to stop any of the other multiple uses of the national forest system
0:41.9	other than road building.
0:45.2	How can we recognize that ecological sustainability has to be the objective of everything
0:51.2	of our multiple use mandate?
0:52.7	And from that will flow a series of benefits.
0:56.9	As good citizens as patriots, we should strive to pass on a richer and healthier land legacy
1:03.7	than the one we inherited. Hey, everybody, it's Hal Herring, Back Country Hunters and Anglers
1:09.9	podcast and blast. Thanks for being here. Hey, I. It's Hal Herring, Backcountry Hunters and Anglers Podcast and Blast. Thanks for being here.
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