Dear USDA Secretary Brooke Rollins and Forest Service Chief Tom Schultz,
I am deeply concerned about the proposal to rescind or alter the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
I own land that near the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri. I respect and love the natural environment and the wildlife on that the land and I value that the access to the water and land there is undisturbed by roads or infrastructure.
I don’t want any new or added roads going through that National Forest. That would disturb the beauty of it and disrupt it from being what it is intended to be which is a protected natural environment. If roads are built it will change the entire structure of what a protected national forest is intended to be.
I don’t want my tax dollars used to pay for these changes. I am a retired teacher and as an educator and a responsible community member it would be painful to think that my tax payments would be supporting something so harmful, unnecessary and destructive.
Please let the wild stay wild!! If you take it away, we cannot get it back!!