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FEDERATION OF WESTERN OUTDOOR CLUBS







RESOLUTION #30:  RS 2477 RULE

In 1864, Congress passed a law mandating that roads to mines on federal lands were to remain open to provide access for further mineral development.  This law resulted in the regulation known as RS 2477.
The 1976 Federal Lands Policy and Management Act included a section defining these roads as those that were "constructed and maintained."  However, certain anti-federal lands, anti-wilderness interests in western states, particularly in Utah and Alaska, began to use RS 2477 as authority to declare any track as a road.  Many counties mapped a myriad of thousands of routes as roads, and some actually bull-dozed routes in areas classified as roadless by the Forest Service and as Wilderness Study Areas by the Bureau of Land Management.
Recently, a federal judge from Utah ruled that RS 2477 did not allow construction of new roads across federal lands.
The Federation of Western Outdoor Clubs strongly supports the decision in this Utah court case on RS 2477 and the finding that a road must be constructed and maintained in order to qualify as a legitimate road.













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