Road decommissioning is an increasingly important tool for restoring watersheds on national forest lands. Wildland roads can result in a number of negative impacts leading to decreased terrestrial and aquatic habitat quality. It is believed, therefore, that road decommissioning can have significant positive effects on a watershed—cleaner water, improved fisheries, and restored habitat for terrestrial animals. However, very little research has been conducted to quantify these benefits. In 1998, the Clearwater National Forest (CNF) and Nez Perce Tribe (NPT) began an intensive road decommissioning program after extensive flooding caused hundreds of landslides in 1995-1996. Since the program’s inception, more than 500 miles of roads have been decommissioned. Neither the CNF nor the NPT can sustain the budget and personnel necessary to monitor how effectively these projects are restoring fish and wildlife habitat. Data collected through a citizen monitoring program will fill this need. Citizen science is a popular and powerful way to monitor the long-term trends and conditions of natural systems while also encouraging a stewardship ethic for the resources being monitored. The information gathered by “citizen scientists” can help land managers make more informed decisions about how best to care for public and private land. We have created the first citizen monitoring program that focuses on the ecological recovery of decommissioned roads. We developed monitoring protocols for citizen scientists, recruited and trained volunteers, and led monitoring trips in the field every weekend during the summer and fall of 2005, engaging, thus far, some 20 volunteers. As this project is still in progress, all conclusions and findings reported are preliminary. We can, however, make general observations on the efficacy and accuracy of employing citizen scientists to measure ecosystem recovery as a result of road decommissioning. In addition, a second year of funding has been obtained for this project. We anticipate that next year’s program will be a success in forwarding our objectives for this project.