The End of the Road

President Obama issued a one-year suspension of permits for new roads in national forests, keeping large swaths of forest, including a vast temperate rainforest in Alaska, undeveloped for the time being.

Our national forests will continue to be less traveled, at least for another year. President Obama recently declared a one year moratorium on building new roads in national forests. Host Bruce Gellerman asks Mike Anderson, a senior resources analyst with the Wilderness Society in Seattle, how halting the roadless ruling will affect the nation’s wilderness.