11.  In drafting the plan, the Forest Service weighed several alternatives to protect the roadless areas, administration officials said.

12.  In general, under the plan, the only logging permitted in the roadless areas would be for the purposes of habitat-restoration and fire-prevention.

13.  Indeed, surveys by various environmental groups suggest that without the subsidy, most companies will simply stay away from roadless areas.

14.  It proposed banning logging and mining in roadless areas and in buffer zones near salmon streams.

15.  John McCarthy of the Idaho Conservation League is willing to allow thinning or prescribed fires in roadless areas.

16.  Not long after, the Bush administration began to issue a series of changes in obscure federal agency operating procedures that significantly weakened roadless area protections.

17.  Opponents say this would open roadless areas to new logging, increasing erosion and stream damage.

18.  Park officials do not anticipate developing more roads, but they might try to use horses to remove logs from roadless areas.

19.  Second, punching road systems into large roadless areas here was judged too expensive and environmentally harmful to be worth it, Tripp said.

20.  She said many roadless areas in Idaho were intentionally left available for logging after prolonged discussions in the past.