Dear Doug Burgum , Donald Trump and the Forest Service,
I do not understand why you would rescind the roadless rule, and I adamantly oppose any changes to this policy. It will only increase fires and disturb an already fragile environment in which I live! And who speaks for the animals and trees that dismantling this policy will kill and destroy? I know I do and I know my senators do and I know most Americans also oppose cancelling this rule. Is nothing sacred to you? You who are reading this? I live next to the trees and so much wildlife great and small - our national forests and parks are treasures and honestly American’s best idea. Let’s keep it as such and treat them with respect- not as commodities to rape and destroy and mine. Rescinding the roadless rule in place since 2001 is costly and one of the last refuges for water and wildlife and any actions to undo this rule is criminal and will be see as such.
The Forest Service already manages a road system that is over seven times larger than the Interstate Highway System! Should taxpayers be on the hook to build more expensive roads that damage our water, wildlife, and outdoors? And you’ve already cut the forest service back to a level that is unsustainable.
Gutting this rule without public meetings - all over the country is cowardly and wrong. Let the people speak and not those in concrete slabs.
I border the Tonto National Forest and it deserves to be protected. America’s National Parks and Forests and Monuments are our parks, monuments and forests. They deserve better than bulldozers, and so do we.
‘The care of the Earth is our most ancient and most worthy, and after all our most pleasing responsibility. To cherish what remains of it and to foster its renewal is our only hope.’
Wendell Berry