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I am a lifelong hiker and backpacker, a kayaker, a forager, a naturalist, a lover of wild places. The Roadless Rule has had a deeply impactful and beneficial role in protecting what small amount of wilderness is left to Turtle Island. Roads do so much harm, from introducing invasive species, creating erosion, increasing the risk of wildfire, and facilitating the wanton extraction of our last remaining stands of wild timber. Even as an outdoor enthusiast who has used and appreciated roads that take me deep into the wilderness, I firmly oppose and weakening or rewriting of the roadless rule that would create more roads. We do not need more roads. We do not need more access. We need stewardship. We need ecosystem repair, we need clean water and fish habitat and places where mountain lions, bears, otters, wolves, and other wild creatures can take refuge. What has been done to our natural history and our ecosystems is criminal and ugly. The shame of it should haunt us all for generations. We must not cut the last trees, mine the last bedrock. We don't need more roads, don't need more access for multinational companies to strip our wilderness of resources. We need courage and integrity from our leaders, not a short-sighted selloff destined to benefit only a few, while despoiling our last wild places. Protect the Roadless Rule. Protect our water and our forests and our earth and our history. No new roads. No more extraction. The only honorable action is one of resistance to this onslaught of extractive greed and terror. I will lay down in front of the bulldozers rather than see more of this horrific harm from this morally bankrupt, intellectually corrupt, and utterly vile administration. Protect the Roadless Rule.

Please keep forests natural. They don't need more roads. They need to be protected for current use and for future generations.

I oppose the proposal to fully or partially rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. I've spent my career in climate, helping some of the world's largest companies reduce their environmental impact. I know lasting progress depends on clear, enforceable rules that protect shared resources. Before this work, I watched public lands opened to private interests in ways that degraded public welfare and left communities to bear the costs. Any repeal would repeat that pattern. Repeal would open millions of acres to road building, logging, mining, and drilling. Wildfire is the stated reason, but the clearer motive is more timber for private industry. These forests store carbon, shelter wildlife, and protect drinking water for millions. Please reject this repeal and protect them for future generations. The Forest Service should keep the Roadless Rule intact exactly as it is. Do not weaken or repeal this critical policy. National forests are the heart of our public lands. The Roadless Area Conservation Rule protects some of the wildest forests we have left, forests that protect critical wildlife habitat and drinking water for millions. Revoking the Roadless Rule puts landscapes, wildlife, and communities at risk. Not only is the Roadless Rule good policy, it's also wildly popular across the country, with over 600,000 people submitting comments to the US Forest Service last year in support of keeping the rule in place. And more than 20 years ago, the American people overwhelmingly called for our national forests to be protected for future generations. Revoking the Roadless Rule would destroy the natural inheritance we leave for our children.

I support the current Roadless Area Conservation Rule. The current Roadless Rule helps to protect public land from threats to its protected water and wildlife, from human caused fire and from developments that decrease its value to this citizen who cherishes and enjoys wild lands. Our dry western lands are under threat. The Roadless Rule helps to protect our decreasing water resources on public lands. It supports the genetic connectivity that wildlife species need to survive. Limiting roads decreases the threat of accidental or intentional human-caused fire ignitions. Many of us who live in the western United States recreate in remote public lands. We are willing to put in the energy to access these lands because we know that they are untrammeled and provide home for creatures and plants we value. They have deep inherent value to us. The U S Forest Service has a huge backlog of work needed to maintain current roads on the public lands it manages. It has not been provided with the money to do this. Do not defile our lands further by increasing the number of roads. Do not diminish the value of our federally owned lands (read: owned by us, the citizens of the United States) by making it easy for mining or logging or other commercial interests to access and exploit them. Maintain the current Roadless Area Conservation Rule. Sincerely, Skip

We don’t want anymore of our public lands destroyed for private interests. They belong to the people not the corporations.

I do not want any more public lands given to private industry. They belong to the people not the corporations.

I am a California voter who is in support of keeping the Roadless Rule. We need more not less wilderness in our future. Stop extracting and destroying our greatest treasure,

Please don't let anyone build roads through the last ancient forests in the United States! They've been there for millennia! If we build Starbucks and Wal-marts over them, it'll take thousands of years for them to return!

Save the Roadless Rule! It's crucial for the overall health and wellness of our nation. Areas across the country will be put at risk if the Roadless Rule is not kept safe. The damage that will be done by opening up these protected areas for industry is irreversible. SAVE THE ROADLESS RULE!

I'm strongly opposed to this at it exposes sensitive habitat to mining and logging, jeopardizes clean drinking water for millions of Americans, and will destroy ecosystems that have been protected for future generations by generations from our past.

Please do not repeal the Roadless Rule. This is a truly great part of America and god knows there are less and less of those every day. Please respect our land, our values, and our great nation. We don't need more logging; we need the wild land preserved for our grandchildren and theirs, not for our greed. Thank you.

It is essential that we retain the Roadless Rule. This rule is vital to conserve and protect our natural resources for now and future generations in perpetuity. I do not support the proposed changes that would allow new road construction and logging in critical roadless areas.

Do not end the roadless rule. It is vital in protecting our wild forests and old growth trees as well as sources of drinking water. There is no coming back from this asinine proposal. You can’t put the genie back in the bottle. The Rule was put in place to protect our greatest resources. Billionaires and corporations don’t need more money or access to these precious resources. Stop the greed and destruction of our country by this short-sighted administration!

Healthy, roadless forests naturally soak up greenhouse gases to help fight climate change. The current rule already lets local managers thin out overgrown trees near neighborhoods to prevent dangerous wildfires. There is simply no need to build new roads or allow aggressive commercial logging deep in the forest. If it ain’t broke, don’t fix it.

Please do NOT rescind the Roadless Rule Act. The intact wildlands in the United States are our greatest national treasure and rescinding the restrictions will open them up to mining, timber harvest and other destructive activities that serve only to line the pockets of a few rather than allowing the wilderness to be the bastion of beauty and wonder for ALL it was meant to be.

Please protect our forests and national lands. For us, for our children, for our planet. Why would we do this? Why? Other than human greed. Roads do not belong in these areas. Please think past the immediate gratification to the future and what this would mean for our public lands. No roads!!! Please!

PLEASE do not rescind the roadless rule, our untouched natural spaces are precious and deserve to be left intact for current and future generations of humans and wildlife. Please do the right thing, do not give loggers and other corporations to our beautiful backcountry!

The Forest Service has been able to take a vital leadership role in balancing the multiple dimensions of its mission through the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule which enables it to manage public lands for conservation as well as for other uses needed and desired by the public. New roads through areas with relatively intact ecological value will provide accelerated access for development, over-harvesting of timber, and speed the movement of invasive species through the landscape, all of which accelerate the collapse of biodiversity that threatens the health of ecosystems necessary to sustain life for all of us. The loss of the 2001 roadless rule and its replacement with a jigsaw puzzle of local regulations will inevitably increase the pace of this unravelling. Small local governments can’t possibly have the resources and the depth of knowledge that the Forest Service is able to bring to vital decisions about land management, and the result will be that rather than coherent ecoregion-level management, one jurisdiction will create harms that negatively impact other jurisdictions nearby. I urge you NOT to change the 2001 Roadless Conservation Rule.

If once this goes into place there is no recovering from the greed that will ensue. Water, air and natural environmental quality will be forever changed. This door will never be shut again. This will only be the start, then it will next be mining and eminent domain, then major roadways and buildng to support logging workers. It will never stop. Greed by the government has no bounds. The logging will only profit the government, not the people. As we have seen with Helene, the government won't save people from the damages from logging, mud slides, animals being killed, pristine environments gone! All for greed not for safety. This is deguised for safety, don't be fooled. Our state will forever pay for this destruction forever. Greed is the wolf in the woods. Do not pass this! Don't fall for this deguise!

Experts across the board know this is a bad idea. They know it's politically motivated to help the logging industry. Your department is supposed to manage and care for wilderness, but instead you do everything you can to ruin it under this current administration. The claim about caring about wildfire is laughable considering the extraordinarily high number of fires that begin near roads. You are opening up the wilderness to human-generated fire damage. Why? So a few companies can make a few dollars? We care about the wild, we want to see it managed and protected. This does the opposite of that. You know that, but you're being led by morally bankrupt morons like Doug Burgum. Public pushback is real, you don't have to "follow orders" just because the fascists tell you to.