Roadless areas touted as critical to Colorado - Land Use Issues January 2006 - - Off-Road.com
Roadless areas touted as critical to Colorado - Land Use Issues January 2006

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Roadless areas touted as critical to Colorado
By BILL McKEOWN THE GAZETTE

Protecting Colorado's roadless areas is crucial for successful hunting and fishing, and those pastimes are critical to the state's economy.

That was the message sent Wednesday by Trout Unlimited officials, a fly-rod manufacturer and two retired Colorado Division of Wildlife biologists.

The advocates of roadless areas held a teleconference to publicize the release of a report by Trout Unlimited on the importance of preserving pristine areas of the state for fish and wildlife. They also criticized a recent Bush administration policy that could allow road building on millions of acres of roadless land in Colorado and across the West controlled by the U.S. Forest Service and the Bureau of Land Management.

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