Video Archives

The Legacy Roads and Trails program has been quietly restoring our nation's forests for the past three years, reclaiming old roads, and upgrading culverts and bridges to restore water quality, all while putting people to work in the woods.  With 16.4 million in Legacy Roads and Trails funds provided to the state of Montana over the past three years, the project has likely created or maintained more than 200 direct jobs throughout the state, with even more jobs created as those funds are recirculated through those local communities.

These pictures were taken with remotely-triggered cameras on decommissioned roads on the Clearwater National Forest in Idaho.  More than 700 miles of roads on the Clearwater have been decommissioned providing wildlife habitat and connectivity.  Recontoured roads restore habitat for wildlife by providing food such as grass and berries as well and creating a safe haven from the impacts associated with motorized recreation. 

Backcountry Hunters and Anglers seeks to ensure America's outdoor heritage in a natural setting, through education and work in behalf of clean water and wilderness. This video shows how unfettered off-road vehicle use is in opposition to this mission.

This video is on the Puget Sound Partnership, a community effort of citizens, governments, tribes, scientists and businesses working together to restore and protect Puget Sound. Much of this restoration involves decommissioning old roads and other watershed restoration efforts.

WMTW TV News 8 chief photojournalist Kevyn Fowler captured a road collapsing in Freeport, Maine during a storm. This is an excellent 3 min. illustration of how a plugged or overwhelmed culvert can turn into a major road failure.

Wildlands CPR presents this virtual tour that follows two popular trails within the WSA: the Chain of Lakes Trail #39, and part of Tr. #313 following the border between the Bitterroot and Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forests.

When the Sapphire WSA was established in 1977, these were single track trails that now have become double track routes either through continued use, or in the case of Tr.#39, purposely widened by the Forest Service to accommodate off-road vehicles

Utah rancher Curtis Rozman talks with Wildlands CPR Communications Coordinator Franklin Seal about off-road vehicle abuse of public lands near his ranch northwest of Moab. (Filmed by the Southern Utah Wilderness Alliance and Omni Productions at Ruby Ranch in 2004)

Watershed Restoration & Forest Roads Symposium: Welcome & introductions, panel one -- "A Science & Policy Overview of Roads & Watershed Health" w/Chris Frissell (Pacific Rivers Council) and Stephen Bernath (WSDOE).