Roadless Areas - Acreage Summaries
APPENDIX A
INVENTORIED ROADLESS AREA ACREAGE
CATEGORIES OF NFS LANDS SUMMARIZED BY STATE
Note: All Categories of Inventoried Roadless Areas receive equal protection under the Final Rule
| State1 | State Acres (1,000 acres) | Total area of National Forest System land2 (1,000 acres) | Total area of National Forest System land in Designated Areas3 (1,000 acres) | Total area of Inventoried Roadless Areas within National Forest System land4 (1,000 acres) | Inventoried Roadless Areas allocated to a prescription that does not allow road construction and reconstruction (1,000 acres) | Inventoried Roadless Areas allocated to a prescription that does not allow road construction and reconstruction, and the forest plan recommends as wilderness (1,000 acres) | Inventoried Roadless Areas allocated to a prescription that allows road construction and reconstruction (1,000 acres) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alabama | 33,432 | 665 | 47 | 13 | 13 | 0 | 0 |
| Alaska | 393,747 | 22,083 | 8,605 | 14,779 | 8,479 | 1,638 | 4,661 |
| Arizona | 72,964 | 11,255 | 2,105 | 1,174 | 415 | 61 | 699 |
| Arkansas | 34,036 | 2,586 | 153 | 95 | 22 | 0 | 73 |
| California | 101,676 | 20,698 | 5,674 | 4,416 | 1,727 | 163 | 2,527 |
| Colorado | 66,624 | 14,509 | 3,368 | 4,433 | 925 | 11 | 3,498 |
| Connecticut* | 3,548 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Delaware** | 1,534 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| District of Columbia** | 39 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Florida | 38,392 | 1,153 | 86 | 50 | 20 | 6 | 25 |
| Georgia | 37,745 | 865 | 162 | 63 | 38 | 0 | 25 |
| Hawaii* | 4,134 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Idaho | 53,487 | 20,458 | 4,818 | 9,322 | 2,285 | 1,371 | 5,666 |
| Illinois | 36,060 | 293 | 34 | 11 | 4 | 0 | 6 |
| Indiana | 23,158 | 196 | 13 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 8 |
| Iowa** | 36,017 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kansas | 52,660 | 108 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Kentucky | 25,863 | 800 | 125 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Louisiana | 31,776 | 604 | 16 | 7 | 2 | 0 | 5 |
| Maine | 21,594 | 53 | 11 | 6 | 1 | 0 | 5 |
| Maryland** | 7,870 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Massachusetts** | 5,914 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Michigan | 37,448 | 2,858 | 214 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 16 |
| Minnesota | 54,014 | 2,838 | 815 | 62 | 0 | 0 | 62 |
| Mississippi | 30,903 | 1,159 | 8 | 3 | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Missouri | 44,614 | 1,493 | 72 | 25 | 0 | 0 | 25 |
| Montana | 94,109 | 16,893 | 4,124 | 6,397 | 1,729 | 824 | 3,844 |
| Nebraska | 49,523 | 352 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Nevada | 70,763 | 5,833 | 1,173 | 3,186 | 18 | 2 | 3,166 |
| New Hampshire | 5,941 | 728 | 103 | 235 | 121 | 0 | 114 |
| New Jersey** | 5,258 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| New Mexico | 77,823 | 9,327 | 1,617 | 1,597 | 1,101 | 66 | 430 |
| New York | 32,056 | 16 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| North Carolina | 33,710 | 1,244 | 144 | 172 | 16 | 15 | 142 |
| North Dakota | 45,251 | 1,106 | 0 | 266 | 0 | 0 | 266 |
| Ohio | 26,451 | 230 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Oklahoma | 44,738 | 397 | 94 | 13 | 0 | 0 | 13 |
| Oregon | 62,140 | 15,658 | 2,965 | 1,965 | 797 | 0 | 1,168 |
| Pennsylvania | 28,806 | 513 | 42 | 25 | 24 | 0 | 1 |
| Commonwealth of Puerto Rico | 2,245 | 28 | 2 | 24 | 6 | 10 | 7 |
| Rhode Island** | 788 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| South Carolina | 19,961 | 613 | 23 | 8 | 3 | 1 | 4 |
| South Dakota | 49,357 | 2,012 | 35 | 80 | 0 | 0 | 80 |
| Tennessee | 26,973 | 698 | 130 | 85 | 39 | 0 | 46 |
| Texas | 171,057 | 755 | 39 | 4 | 0 | 0 | 4 |
| Utah | 54,339 | 8,179 | 894 | 4,013 | 466 | 0 | 3,567 |
| Vermont | 6,154 | 376 | 82 | 25 | 16 | 0 | 10 |
| Virgin Islands* | 109 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
| Virginia | 27,089 | 1,660 | 200 | 394 | 273 | 12 | 109 |
| Washington | 45,208 | 9,214 | 3,360 | 2,015 | 1,284 | 15 | 716 |
| West Virginia | 15,508 | 1,033 | 138 | 202 | 14 | 0 | 188 |
| Wisconsin | 35,933 | 1,523 | 49 | 69 | 0 | 0 | 69 |
| Wyoming | 62,604 | 9,238 | 3,364 | 3,257 | 154 | 17 | 3,085 |
| TOTAL ACRES | 2,343,144 | 192,300 | 44,919 | 58,518 | 19,970 | 4,212 | 34,336 |
*These states have less than 500 acres of National Forest System land area.
**These states have no National Forest System lands.
1 Acreages from Government Accounting Office Land Ownership Report to Congressional Requesters, March 1996
2 USDA Forest Service Land Areas Report September 1999, plus an additional 254,000 acres for Land Between the Lakes National Recreation Area and Exxon Valdez Oil Spill Acquisition. Acreages for National Forest System land and do not include private inholdings.
3 Designated areas include national wilderness, national primitive areas, national scenic research areas, national scenic areas, national wild and scenic rivers, national recreation areas, national game refuge & wildlife preserves, national monuments, national volcanic monuments, national historic areas, research natural areas, wilderness study areas, and other Congressionally designated areas. These designated areas include 6,015,000 acres of Inventoried Roadless Areas.
4 Inventoried Roadless Areas are based on forest plans, forest plan revisions in progress where the agency has established an inventory, or other assessments that are completed or adopted by the agency. RARE II information is used if a forest does not have a more recent inventory based on RARE II.