Number: 1982-02
WHEREAS, the National Wildlife Federation is a resolute and tenacious advocate of multiple use of public lands; and
WHEREAS, public access is critical to multiple use; and
WHEREAS, while some road closures are recognized as being essential to wildlife management, erosion control, flora protection and maintenance of wilderness integrity, some such prohibitions deny public access to public lands for the economic benefit or convenience of local individual landholders;
NOW, THEREFORE BE IT RESOLVED that the National Wildlife Federation, in annual convention assembled March 18-21, 1982, in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, hereby petitions and encourages local, state, and federal governmental agencies to assure public access to public lands, unless it or would degrade general environmental or wildlife habitat quality, by retaining access where it now exists and obtaining easements or other provisions for entry where access is denied.