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Forest Fires: Beyond the Heat and Hype If a Road Runs Through the Woods, How Many Miles Does It Take to Get There? There currently are enough Forest Service roads to Circle the planet 15 times. Reach from Earth to the Moon and halfway back again. Keep you driving 24 hours a day for more than a year without covering them all. All of the Above! With a total of 383,518 miles of roads (plus 40,000 miles of "unofficial" roads), the Forest Service can protect homes and communities from forest fires and provide recreation access without building new roads or subsidizing commerical logging. From Forest Fires: Beyond the Heat and Hype Up to Top HOME | Email Signup | About Us | Contact Us | Terms of Use | © 2008 Sierra Club