>>2821884I mean, there's old logging roads everywhere in the mountains in the east, but the condition widely varies as to whether you can actually get through them. If they were not maintained at all they just turn into bogs, and, at higher elevation can form fens where the mud is knee deep or more. I've walked through plenty of logging roads where there was absolutely no escaping slogging through mud for hours. Also, some of them are just totally blocked off by deadfall at this point, or trees started growing in them if they weren't really used as paths after the logging days.
The original point though, was not about the roads existing, but that all the trees were stolen prior to designating the land wilderness, and in the east, the land generally burned down a few times over from all the tinder and lack of trees to prevent fire - so it isn't really preserving it, it's more just "we took all the profitable stuff so we are gonna sell it to the government now"
