Forest Service Travel Management
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2026-08-20 — Special Areas; Roadless Area Conservation: cross-connection with roadless-area-conservation: Repeal of the nationwide roadless prohibition would let individual forest travel-management decisions govern road construction in previously off-limits inventoried roadless areas. (novelty: 4)
- 2026-08-24 — Travel Management; National Forest System Lands: Forest Service published a proposed rule (Nov 2025) to rewrite 36 CFR Part 212 so that existing NFS roads, trails, and airfields would be presumed open to public motorized use unless the agency documents a specific legal or resource-based reason to restrict them, reversing the current designation-based access presumption; existing travel management decisions would remain in effect until revised. (novelty: 3)