Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

“Some of the last truly wild places in America are about to lose their protection and the wildlife that depend…”

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 1/24

10 submissions
1 version of the text
0 added words of their own

TopicsEnvironmental Protection Biodiversity Resource Development Extraction Wildlife Habitat

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Sep 9Sep 10

Sep 9: 8 submissions, 1 unique comments

The letter

As sent in FS-2025-0001-353232, the comment that stands for the group.

Some of the last truly wild places in America are about to lose their protection and the wildlife that depend on them will pay the price. The Trump administration, through Agriculture Secretary Brooke Rollins, has proposed rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule in its entirety. This rule protects 45 million acres of undeveloped national forest, nearly a third of everything the Forest Service manages, from road building, large-scale logging, and energy development. For nearly 25 years, this rule has kept some of the wildest, most connected landscapes in the country intact. That matters enormously for the wolves who need large, roadless landscapes to recover in the Northern Rockies, for the bears who need undisturbed corridors to roam wild lands and for every wild carnivore who needs wild space to live. Roads are how poachers reach remote populations, how bear baiters set up bait stations deep in the backcountry, how trophy hunters and predator-control operations access places that, right now, offer wildlife a real refuge.

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