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Data2026
Forest Sight
43.08M
roadless acres analyzed, 96% of the land the national rule covers
Forest Sight quantifies what's at stake in the Forest Service's August 2026 proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. A Python data pipeline fetches and analyzes public land-management data region by region — PNW, California, Northern Rockies, Southwest/Great Basin, and Alaska — alongside US-wide totals. It models 5- and 10-year what-if scenarios for habitat loss and invasive-plant spread if roadless protections are lifted. The pipeline builds a static site from the processed data, published via GitHub Pages. Built to make a dense federal rulemaking proposal legible at a glance, region by region.
Sources
- USDA Forest Service
- US Fish & Wildlife Service
- GBIF
- US Census Bureau
Data Window
2001–2026
Technologies
PythonData AnalysisOSS