The Salmon River, which cuts through the Salmon-Challis National Forest, will get protection from a federal judge’s ruling to restrict off-road vehicles in some sections of the 4.3 million acre forest in central Idaho. The ban in the forest, which contains the 1.3-million-acre Frank Church River of No Return Wilderness Area, the largest wilderness area in the Lower 48, follows a February ruling that the Forest Service ignored evidence showing significant damage to trails and the landscape from ORVs when it crafted its 2009 plan. As conservationists hailed the decision, they also hope that it will have broader-scale implications for how land managers plan for ORV use in the rest of the West.

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