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Legacy Roads and Trails Program

The Forest Service Legacy Roads and Trail Remediation program was authorized

and funded in 2008. Its purpose is to direct work towards urgently needed road

decommissioning, road and trail repair and maintenance, and removal of fish

passage barriers. The program emphasizes areas where Forest Service roads may

be contributing to water quality problems in streams and water bodies that support

threatened, endangered, and sensitive species or community water sources. The

program has provided $300 million from 2008 to 2012 to the U.S. Forest Service to

perform this range of important roads and trails work across the National Forest

System.

Read more about the Legacy Roads and Trails Program...

Restoration in Action: The First Five Years of the Legacy Roads and

Trails Program

The Wilderness Society and Wildlands CPR prepared a report highlighting Legacy

Roads and Trails accomplishments during its first five years. It provides a general

accounting of appropriated funds and spotlights a sampling of projects from across

the country.

“Legacy Roads and Trails is an important part of the Forest Service's long-term

commitment to restoration. Working with our partners over the last five years,

major accomplishments to improve the transportation system and watershed

health have been made in every Forest Service Region. Gifford Pinchot said it

best when he said: "Our responsibility to the Nation is to be more than careful

stewards of the land, we must be constant catalysts for positive change." This

work reflects our commitment to continuing this positive change.

I would like to personally thank The Wilderness Society, Wildlands CPR and our

other partners for their help and support in our ongoing restoration efforts. We

have much to do and I am confident, that together, we can do it.

Thank You!”

Chief of the Forest Service

Tom Tidwell

Read the executive summary and full report on the Wildlands CPR website...

Highlights

Restoration in Action: The First

Five Years of the Legacy Roads

and Trails Program, April 2013

(PDF, 2.0 MB)

FY 2010 Legacy Roads and Trails

Accomplishment Report, USDA

Forest Service Pacific Northwest

Region (PDF, 2.2 MB)

United States Department of Agriculture

Forest Service

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