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I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
As a descendant of West Virginia's colonial pioneers I do not want to bear witness to further destruction of this landscape. Stop the nonsense and preserve the natural beauty.
Sincerely,
William Kelley
37 Hedge Rd Brookline, MA 02445-7512
66.brittle_junior@icloud.com
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. Roadless areas provide additional places where native species can exist and repopulate themselves - both flora and fauna. The areas provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them.
These roadless areas were set aside for protection to accomplish a goal of saving additional land near wilderness areas. Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Sincerely,
Lizbeth Pyle
1465 Dogwood Ave Morgantown, WV 26505-2309
betsypyle@comcast.net
To the U.S. Forest Service
I am writing you to you in strong opposition to the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
I live in urban central Maryland. The national forests of West Virginia are a respite from the hustle and bustle of our modern lives. My wife, myself, and our 3 young children take multiple camping trips a year to the Dolly Sods area where we enjoy our public lands in solace. The thought of these lands being littered with the markings of what we are trying to escape breaks my heart.
In addition these wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Sincerely,
Benjamin Scheper
42 W Green St Westminster, MD 21157-4432
benjamin.scheper@gmail.com
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
These places in West Virginia are unique, especially on the east coast. The sanctity and serenity of roadless areas allows for people inundated by a digital world to have a place to escape and disconnect. These are also places that have no cellular coverage, hence maintaining the ability for generations to come to learn how to be in the out-of-doors doors. We need to keep roadless areas safe and available for everyone to enjoy. The animals that live in these places are able to live as they were intended. Roadless areas also provide protected habitat for endangered species. If you remove these areas, you also remove generations of people from being able to experience the unique spaces here
Sincerely,
Terriann Ma
5234 Eliots Oak Rd Columbia, MD 21044-1827
terriannjma@icloud.com
I was born and raised in the southern coalfields of WV. I lived by creeks that ran red with mine water. I’m an avid fly fisherman. I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Sincerely,
Stephen Bodnar
414 Columbia Ave Williamstown, WV 26187-1123
sbodnar@suddenlink.net
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. Please leave thus rule in place.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Sincerely,
David Herron
4529 Langland St Cincinnati, OH 45223-1664
david.herron@uc.edu
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
I lived in Pocahontas County for over twenty years and love the wildness. Hills Creek was near my home, and the falls were a favorite when I still lived there. My family remains there, and we would all absolutely hate to see such sacred land destroyed by roads and unchecked logging. Dolly Sods, Cheat Mountain, Canaan - all areas that have been part of family vacations through the years. Our state has very little going for it economically, but tourism is the biggest positive for us. If we destroy the untouched wilderness we have, we will lose so much.
Please do NOT repeal the Roadless Rule.
Sincerely,
Sheila Rose
1730 W 5th Ave Williamson, WV 25661-3019
srose796@yahoo.com
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. It’s truly an abomination that a repeal of the roadless rule is under consideration. It is shortsighted and unnecessary. Please keep these lands intact and unfragmented for future generations.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Sincerely,
Bryan DePoy
6885 Michael Dr Mentor, OH 44060-4485
bwdepoy@gmail.com
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
I have lived in Tucker County for 50 years and am a frequent hiker at Otter Creek, Dolly Sods, Red Run, and the Shavers Fork watershed.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone. Recreation and wildlife management and flood prevention and protection are important priorities.
The Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Sincerely,
Barbara Weaner
Sincerely,
Barbara Weaner
1334 S Haddix Rd Montrose, WV 26283-8821
weaner2@gmail.com
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
David Farr
Sincerely,
David Farr
3154 Gracefield Rd Silver Spring, MD 20904-0804
myco@hey.com
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Some of my favorite hiking are oin roadless areas in the Monongahelia. Please, save these beautiful places so they will remain wild and wonderful!
Sincerely,
Gina Griffith
2718 Lakeview Dr Saint Albans, WV 25177-3460
ginadcg@att.net
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
WV has a problem taking care of the roads it already has and does not fix them properly. If you odn't believe me, come drive my road. How can they afford to put in more roads and maintain them especially in national forests and public lands.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Sincerely,
Judith Clister
640 Bolyard Rd Bruceton Mills, WV 26525-6770
webname@forntiernet.net
My senior days are spent trying to do good work and support making our country a better place to live. For future generations (and i have no children or grandchildren). It is exhausting to attempt to follow the nonstop onslaught of negative actions being taken by the current administration. I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Sincerely,
Margaret Hutchison
361 River Trail Ln Lewisburg, WV 24901-9600
maggie.hutchison2013@gmail.com
I STRONGLY OPPOSE the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of EVERYONE, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
I have had transcendent experiences at some of these places - they are truly sacred. Their wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. ONCE THEY ARE LOST, RESTORING THEM TO THEIR PRISTINE STATE WOULD ACTUALLY IMPOSSIBLE!! Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Sincerely,
Rita Caufield
106 Jerry Ct Martinsburg, WV 25401-9213
ritacaufield@gmail.com
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I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
W. Stanley Conrad
Sincerely,
William Conrad
1119 Red Fox Rd New Creek, WV 26743-8717
wstanleyconrad@duck.com
National Forests in WV are one of the most treasured parts of our beautiful wild and wonderful state. Whether I'm fishing, hiking, camping, or kayaking, the time spent in places like the Monongahela National Forest are sacred moments. I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Please help support and protect our public lands. Thank you!
Sincerely,
Jarrod Caltrider
10 Meadow Ln Scott Depot, WV 25560-9761
caltriderjl@gmail.com
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
The dismantling of environmental protections for money is obscene. Selling our heritage for profit is a step backwards. Don't rewind back to times that are best left to history.
Sincerely,
Michael Carberry
14115 Laurel Branch Trl NE Flintstone, MD 21530-1115
yz329mx@yahoo.com
As a Bridgeport, WV resident, a lover of our beautiful forests, and a VOTER I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Sincerely,
Anna Smucker
1002 Rainbow Rd Bridgeport, WV 26330-1316
wvsmucker@aol.com
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
The watersheds and rivers in West Virginia provide drinking water to many, many people in the Eastern part of the U.S. There must be intact forests to maintains the streams.
Sincerely,
Elizabeth Clark
391 PO Lewisburg, WV 24901
ebethc2@gmail.com
PLEASE - preserve the integrity of our protected lands. I want my grandchildren to be able to experience them the way God made them, not the way lumber companies or vehicle traffic left them.
I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Our national forests are public lands, our shared birthright, and they should be protected for the benefit of everyone, not opened to greater roadbuilding and commercial logging. In West Virginia, the Roadless Rule safeguards treasured places like Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Mountain and Tea Creek, while protecting important buffers around Dolly Sods, Otter Creek and Cranberry.
These wild, unfragmented landscapes provide clean water, wildlife habitat and irreplaceable opportunities for outdoor recreation. Once they are lost, we cannot easily restore them. Please preserve the Roadless Rule and protect our shared public lands for future generations.
Sincerely,
Craig Faris
1730 Nige Rock Rd Riverton, WV 26814
craig@gbvisions.com
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