Yet another lawsuit and federal court injunction has mired the U.S. Forest Service in legal gridlock surrounding the status of 60 million acres of so-called 'inventoried roadless areas' within the national forest system nationwide. The most recent roadblock to managing unroaded areas occurred November 29 when Judge Elizabeth Laporte of the San Francisco federal court issued an injunction to reinstate the 2001 Roadless Rule--issued by the Clinton Administration to ban reading and timber management innational forest roadless areas.
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