Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“I am submitting this comment in opposition to the USDA's proposed rescission of the Roadless Area Conservation…”

Campaign: One letter sent by 10 or more people, copied or lightly reworded. It counts as one unique comment. The record does not say which organisation ran it.

Opposes rescissionA0 noneSubstance 3/24

11 submissions
3 versions of the text
0 added words of their own

TopicsEconomic Impact Fiscal Forest Management Wildfire Water Quality Quantity Wildlife Habitat

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Sep 14Sep 24

Sep 14: 10 submissions, 1 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-395283, the comment that stands for the group.

I am submitting this comment in opposition to the USDA's proposed rescission of the Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Docket No. FS-2025-0001). For 25 years, this rule has protected nearly 45 million acres of national forest from road-building and commercial logging, preserving drinking water for tens of millions of Americans, migration corridors for elk and mule deer, and habitat for imperiled species like salmon, wolves, and grizzly bears. The agency's own draft environmental impact statement acknowledges that rescinding this rule will not meaningfully reduce wildfire risk and will cause lasting harm to wildlife and water resources, while failing to generate enough timber revenue to offset those losses. Repealing a rule that the agency's own data does not support is bad policy and pure politics. I urge the Forest Service to select Alternative 1 and keep the Roadless Area Conservation Rule fully intact.

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