Inventoried roadless area

And this isn't just a Western North Carolina story.

Roadless areas stretch across the country, including here in North Carolina, from the mountains of Pisgah and Nantahala to the Croatan National Forest on the coast.

The current public comment period ends October sixth.

So rather than try to tell you what to think about all of this, I wanted to understand what's actually happening and what it could actually mean for the places we explore.

Uh, l- let's start at the beginning.

So the Roadless Rule was implemented in two thousand one, and for the last twenty-five years, it has prevented road building and road construction, and then all the development and activities that depend on roads.

That means logging, um, other industrial development and extraction from the fifty-eight million acres of inventoried roadless areas.

And what does that mean?