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     PRESIDENT CLINTON: STRONG ACTION TO PRESERVE AMERICA'S FORESTS
                   Roadless Area Conservation Project
                            January 5, 2001

Total area of National Forest System lands and total area of Inventoried Roadless Areas within National Forest System lands by State and by National Forest.

All acreage figures are rounded to the nearest 1,000.

                                          Total area of Inventoried
                  Total area of National  Roadless Areas within
                  Forest System land 1    National Forest System lands 2
State                 (1,000 acres)          (1,000 acres)

Alabama                  665                    13
Alaska                   22,083                 14,779
Arizona                  11,255                 1,174
Arkansas                 2,586                  95
California               20,698                 4,416
Colorado                 14,509                 4,433
Florida                  1,152                  50
Georgia                  866                    63
Idaho                    20,458                 9,322
Illinois                 293                    11
Indiana                  196                    8
Kansas                   108
Kentucky                 800                    3
Louisiana                604                    7
Maine                    53                     6
Michigan                 2,858                  16
Minnesota                2,838                  62
Mississippi              1,159                  3
Missouri                 1,493                  25
Montana                  16,893                 6,397
Nebraska                 352
Nevada                   5,833                  3,186
New Hampshire            728                    235
New Mexico               9,327                  1,597
New York                 16
North Carolina           1,244                  172
North Dakota             1,106                  266
Ohio                     230
Oklahoma                 97                     13
Oregon                   15,658                 1,965
Pennsylvania             513                    25
Puerto Rico              28                     24
South Carolina           613                    8
South Dakota             2,012                  80
Tennessee                698                    85
Texas                    755                    4
Utah                     8,179                  4,013
Vermont                  376                    25
Virginia                 1,660                  394
Washington               9,214                  2,015
West Virginia            1,033                  202
Wisconsin                1,523                  69
Wyoming                  9,238                  3,257

Total                    192,300                58,518

For additional state breakdowns, go to http://roadless.fs.fed.us/

1 USDA Forest Service Land Areas Report September 1999, plus 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.

2 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.

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