Sirs: I urge you not to rescind the Roadless Rule. The proposed recision would make advisory, rather than binding, the current national Forest Service baseline requirements. I have a recreation residence in the Lake Tahoe Basin Management Unit and have participated in Forest Service rule-making processes. I believe I speak from some experience. Recission of this rule would force understaffed local rangers to manually evaluate and close thousands of trails, a task that will overwhelm the agency and lead to severe environmental degradation, wildlife disruption, and user conflicts between motorized vehicles and traditional hikers or mountain bikers. Introducing commercial timber harvesting into these area will bring additional costs for road and bridge construction, fire management, law enforcement, and timber sale planning and administration, at a time when Forest Service budgets have been drastically reduced. Recission of the Roadless Rule will lead to increasing costs for the Forest Service, when no provision is made for funding them. Additionally, as the proposed recision of the rule aims to increase logging, such an increase would come at the expense of recreation, tourism and quiet enjoyment. It will also increase wildfire risk by intruding roads deeper into forest lands. Please do not rescind the Roadless Rule.