Forest management realities in the Upper Peninsula
The 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule was controversial a quarter-century ago, and it appears it remains so today. Environmental advocacy groups are coming out in earnest, no doubt hoping to drum-up memberships with sensationalist boilerplate language that often doesn’t mean much after critical review. Most of the Roadless Area — a federal designation — lies in a handful of western states. Michigan has only 16,000 acres of designated Roadless Area. For the most part, nobody in their right mind would venture into most of it, as more than half is practically an impenetrable ...
