Keep The Medicine Bow WILD
Keep the Medicine Bow WILD Road System
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Background
- More than 3,000 miles of roads cut through the Medicine Bow, which is more than enough mileage to travel from New York to San Francisco.
- 90% of the forest is within one mile of a Forest Service designated road. 98% of the Medicine Bow is within two miles of a road.
Keep the Medicine Bow WILD Proposal
- The current Forest Service road system will remain substantially unchanged in the Keep the Medicine Bow WILD Plan. Thousands of miles of roads will remain open to vehicle traffic.
- The Keep the Medicine Bow WILD proposal will close a few routes inside proposed wilderness boundaries totaling about 40 miles across the forest. These routes are: 872, 872f, 874, 103, 336 between roads 396 and 275, 700n, 700b and 700bb.
- The routes which will be closed to vehicle traffic are all unmaintained jeep trails, most of which harm streams, wetlands, meadows, or sensitive wildlife.
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