Inventoried Roadless Area Acreage by State

State ¹	State Acres (1,000 acres)	Total area of National Forest System land ²(1,000 acres)	Total area of National Forest System land in Designated Areas ³(1,000 acres)	Total area of Inventoried Roadless Areas within National Forest System land ⁴(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	446	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

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.