CONWAY — The potential repeal of the federal Roadless Rule is a step toward gutting public access to federal lands like the White Mountain Nationa.l Forest, including the area around Mount Chocorua, according to local outdoor advocates Jerry Curran and Jeff Swayze, both of Conway.
On Aug. 18, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Brooke Rollins announced that the U.S. Forest Service filed a proposed rule to rescind in its entirety the national 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, which restricts road construction and limits certain management activities in inventoried roadless areas.
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