Originally Posted by Valsdad

PS, a ways back someone mentioned, to paraphrase, there's millions of acres of already designated roadless areas (or something similar) isn't that enough? Perhaps the same could be said about "roaded" areas. Without googling it, I'd be willing to make a small wager there are many more acres of public land accessible by road than the roadless areas.


Pretty safe wager, by a landslide.

765 designated wilderness areas total of 109,127,689 acres...about 5% of the land mass of the United States. Apparently 95% being open for multiple use isn't enough.

There are 640 million acres of Federal lands total...so less than 1/6 of all federal lands are designated wilderness.

Last edited by BuzzH; 04/26/17.