Roadless area conservation is a conservation policy limiting road construction and the resulting environmental impact on designated areas of public land. In the United States, roadless area conservation has centered on U.S. Forest Service areas known as inventoried roadless areas.

What is the meaning of roadless?

Not containing or crossed by any roads. ... Forbidden by law to contain or be crossed by any roads or to be entered by any vehicles. Tracts of land designated by the government as roadless areas.

Are roadless areas the same as wilderness areas?

Just about anything. What is a roadless area? Roadless areas, or Inventoried Roadless Areas, are generally those undeveloped portions of National Forests 5,000 acres or larger that are not designated as Wilderness, but that meet to minimum criteria for for consideration under the Wilderness Act.