Corrected: President Clinton: Strong Action to Preserve America's Forests - Roadless Area Conservation Project
      PRESIDENT CLINTON: STRONG ACTION TO PRESERVE AMERICA?S FORESTS
                    Roadless Area Conservation Project
                              January 5, 2001

 Total area of National Forest System lands and total area of Inventoried
Roadless Areas within National Forest System lands by State and by National
                                  Forest.
           All acreage figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000.

                                         Total area of Inventoried
                    Total area of National    Roadless Areas within
                    Forest System land 1 National Forest System lands 2
State                    (1,000 acres)   (1,000 acres)
Alabama                  665             13
Alaska                   22,083          14,779
Arizona                  11,255          1,174
Arkansas                 2,586           95
California               20,698          4,416
Colorado                 14,509          4,433
Florida                  1,152           50
Georgia                  866             63
Idaho                    20,458          9,322
Illinois                 293             11
Indiana                  196             8
Kansas                   108
Kentucky                 800             3
Louisiana                604             7
Maine                    53              6
Michigan                 2,858           16
Minnesota                2,838           62
Mississippi              1,159           3
Missouri                 1,493           25
Montana                  16,893          6,397
Nebraska                 352
Nevada                   5,833           3,186
New Hampshire            728             235
New Mexico               9,327           1,597
New York                 16
North Carolina           1,244           172
North Dakota             1,106           266
Ohio                     230
Oklahoma                 97              13
Oregon                   15,658          1,965
Pennsylvania             513             25
Puerto Rico              28              24
South Carolina           613             8
South Dakota             2,012           80
Tennessee                698             85
Texas                    755             4
Utah                     8,179           4,013
Vermont                  376             25
Virginia                 1,660           394
Washington               9,214           2,015
West Virginia            1,033           202
Wisconsin                1,523           69
Wyoming                  9,238           3,257
Total                    192,300         58,518

For additional state breakdowns, go to http://roadless.fs.fed.us/

1    USDA Forest Service Land Areas Report September 1999, plus additional
254,000 acres for Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area and Exxon
Valdez Oil Spill Acquisition.  Acreages for National Forest System land and
do not include private inholdings.

2    Inventoried Roadless Areas are based on forest plans, forest plan
revisions in progress where the agency has established an inventory, or
other assessments that are completed or adopted by the agency.  RARE II
information is used if a forest does not have a more recent inventory based
on RARE II.

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