Didn President Clinton protect all roadless areas as wilderness with his Roadless Area Conservation Rule?
No. President Clinton halted road construction and conventional logging in designated roadless areas on lands managed by the U.S. Forest Service. The former President’s Roadless Area Conservation Rule differs from wilderness in several ways. First, it provides only administrative protection for roadless areas. Such protections could be overturned by a Congress or by the Bush Administration, and indeed, the Bush Administration has so far delayed implementation of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Wilderness is a legislative protection, that can only be created or altered by Congress.
