Forest Service Travel Management
Current understanding
To be populated as evidence accumulates.
Evidence log
- 2005-04-14 — Right-to-Ride Livestock on Federal Land Act of 2005: cross-connection with pack-saddle-stock-federal-land-access: Bill would constrain how the Forest Service and other land managers designate or restrict routes and areas for pack and saddle stock use under travel management planning. (novelty: 2)
- 2013-09-10 — San Juan Mountains Wilderness Act: cross-connection with san-juan-mountains-wilderness-act: Sheep Mountain Special Management Area’s road and motorized-use restrictions overlap with Forest Service travel management authorities. (novelty: 2)
- 2012-02-02 — Recreational Fishing and Hunting Heritage and Opportunities Act: cross-connection with recreational-fishing-hunting-heritage-act: Default-open treatment of Forest Service lands for hunting, fishing, and shooting interacts with USFS travel management planning that governs where users can access those lands. (novelty: 2)
- 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)