Meat., You want general public polls?
"The poll found that 86 percent of anglers and 83 percent of hunters supported keeping roadless areas of national forests free of roads."
http://www.gilawilderness.com/local/roadsurvy.htm
"The policy also received nearly 2 million comments, virtually all of which favored strong protection of roadless forests. Poll after poll has shown overwhelming bipartisan support."
http://www.rainforestjukebox.org/wrr20011/wrr_jan/roadless.htm
"A statewide poll concluded 57 percent of Idaho citizens support the Clinton administration proposal to protect Roadless Areas in National Forests.
The level of support jumps to almost two-thirds, 64 percent, when people were asked if they support protection of the remaining 8 million acres of roadless forests in Idaho......Half of the National Forest lands in the U.S. have already been logged, mined, have roads and remain open to commercial development. 18% is permanently protected. The remaining 31% are wild but unprotected roadless areas. The Clinton administration has proposed to protect nearly all of these remaining wild but unprotected areas. This means that it could be used for most types of recreation, including hunting, camping and fishing, but that logging, new roads, mining, oil drilling, and off-road vehicles would be prohibited. Do you favor or oppose this proposal? (Is that strongly or somewhat support/oppose?)
Strongly support: 39%
Somewhat support: 18%
Somewhat oppose: 12%
Strongly oppose: 26%"
http://www.forwolves.org/ralph/Idaho%20Roadless%20Poll.htm
"A poll released last summer by the Heritage Forests Campaign, The Wilderness Society and the National Audubon Society revealed that Americans strongly support the protection of roadless areas. Cutting across political party, gender and regional lines, 63 percent of those polled believe there is not enough protected wilderness in the United States."
http://www.enn.com/enn-features-archive/2000/02/02012000/candidatespl_9120.asp
"A survey conducted in August 1998 by Lake Snell Perry & Associates found that 65% of the diverse 1000 registered voters from across the country favored protecting roadless wild forests from development.
A nationwide poll conducted by the Melmann Group, Inc. in July 1999 concluded that the overwhelming majority of Americans favor protecting more National Forest land as Wilderness. Sixty-three percent support a proposal to protect wild areas larger than 1,000 acres, while more than 70 percent favor a ban on oil drilling and logging.
During 2000 more than 6,000 Washington residents, by a 38 to 1 margin, commented in favor of a proposed rule to protect 58 million acres of National Forest roadless areas across the country, including nearly 2 million acres in the state."
http://www.wawild.org/kiosk/why_more_wilderness.htm
"A strong majority of voters (67%) favor a recently adopted policy to protect the last 30% of National Forest lands, with 49% saying they favor this policy strongly (19% oppose). Support for this ruling cuts across partisan and regional lines. Seventy-six percent (76%) of Democrats, 66% of independents and even 58% of Republicans support protecting these areas. Similarly, support is strong in all regions of the country. Seventy-one percent (71%) of people from the Northeast, 68% of Midwesterners, 65% of Southerners and 64% of those in the West favor the rule to protect pristine National Forest lands."
http://environet.policy.net/proactive/newsroom/release.vtml?id=22314
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