[Code of Federal Regulations]
[Title 36, Volume 2]
[Revised as of July 1, 2002]
From the U.S. Government Printing Office via GPO Access
[CITE: 36CFR294.13]

[Page 387]
 
              TITLE 36--PARKS, FORESTS, AND PUBLIC PROPERTY
 
          CHAPTER II--FOREST SERVICE, DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE
 
PART 294--SPECIAL AREAS--Table of Contents
 
           Subpart B--Protection of Inventoried Roadless Areas
 
Sec. 294.13  Prohibition on timber cutting, sale, or removal in inventoried roadless areas.

    (a) Timber may not be cut, sold, or removed in inventoried roadless 
areas of the National Forest System, except as provided in paragraph (b) 
of this section.
    (b) Notwithstanding the prohibition in paragraph (a) of this 
section, timber may be cut, sold, or removed in inventoried roadless 
areas if the Responsible Official determines that one of the following 
circumstances exists. The cutting, sale, or removal of timber in these 
areas is expected to be infrequent.
    (1) The cutting, sale, or removal of generally small diameter timber 
is needed for one of the following purposes and will maintain or improve 
one or more of the roadless area characteristics as defined in 
Sec. 294.11.
    (i) To improve threatened, endangered, proposed, or sensitive 
species habitat; or
    (ii) To maintain or restore the characteristics of ecosystem 
composition and structure, such as to reduce the risk of 
uncharacteristic wildfire effects, within the range of variability that 
would be expected to occur under natural disturbance regimes of the 
current climatic period;
    (2) The cutting, sale, or removal of timber is incidental to the 
implementation of a management activity not otherwise prohibited by this 
subpart;
    (3) The cutting, sale, or removal of timber is needed and 
appropriate for personal or administrative use, as provided for in 36 
CFR part 223; or
    (4) Roadless characteristics have been substantially altered in a 
portion of an inventoried roadless area due to the construction of a 
classified road and subsequent timber harvest. Both the road 
construction and subsequent timber harvest must have occurred after the 
area was designated an inventoried roadless area and prior to January 
12, 2001. Timber may be cut, sold, or removed only in the substantially 
altered portion of the inventoried roadless area.