Roadless is priceless - Oregon Wild

Roadless is priceless - Oregon Wild

In the summer of 2006, I joined hundreds of protesters at a rally in southern Oregon where I wore a homemade t-shirt that said “Roadless is Priceless”. The Forest Service, at the direction of the George W. Bush administration, had just auctioned off more than 500 acres of wild roadless forests for logging. These areas were protected by the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (as it is officially known), issued in 2001, and the result of years of dev…