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I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. My closest relationship to roadless areas comes from my volunteer contributions as a trail maintainer in the Monongahela NF on the Allegheny Trail. I have backpacked the entire Allegheny trail and much of the roadless areas in central appalachia because these areas offer a value to my homeland's conservation legacy as uniquely essential environments. That value cannot be measured economically but should be evaluated on the scarcity of these ecologically and culturally critical places. Even as someone who puts in hours of volunteer labor in our national forest I wouldn't want more access roads to remote corridors of hiker travel. 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, A concerned citizen

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. You should always keep this so people can’t build and mess up the mountains like they have other areas! There was a reason for this and there still is! Thank you, Laurel Peery Sincerely, Laurel Peery 692 Penn Hollow Rd Buchanan, VA 24066-4030 24goforit@gmail.com

I strongly oppose the proposed repeal of the 2001 Roadless Rule. Don’t do it. Ever. 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, John