Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

FS-2025-0001-460410

Opposes rescissionPosted September 21, 2026 On Regulations.gov

Not scored for substance: the comment does not clear the floor of substantive signal.

Topics

  • Water Quality Quantity
    • “degrade the watersheds that they intersect”
    • “compromising what is often pristine clean water”
    • “protect watersheds whose water was the lifeblood of downstream communities”
    • “rivers like the Logan were flooding towns in spring and then drying up in summer”
  • Environmental Protection Biodiversity
    • “ruin the flora and fauna on those previous untouched roadless areas”
    • “untouched roadless areas for current and future generations”
    • “clearcutting and overgrazing”
    • “Let's not add roads to untracked reaches of our National Forests”
  • Recreation Tourism Public Use
    • “hundreds of others recreate weekly on roadless areas”
    • “recreate weekly on roadless areas of the nearby Wasatch-Cache National Forest”

What it names

National Forests
Wasatch-Cache National Forest

The comment

Roads and logging as done on most federal lands inevitably degrade the watersheds that they intersect, compromising what is often pristine clean water coming off off of roadless areas. Combine this with another executive order directive, to allow aerial herbicide use on clearcut forests, and you basically ruin the flora and fauna on those previous untouched roadless areas for current and future generations and all eternity. Roadless areas comprise but a small fraction of all federal lands, and an even smaller fraction of all timbered lands in general. Where I live in northern Utah, I and and hundreds of others recreate weekly on roadless areas of the nearby Wasatch-Cache National Forest. Teddy Roosevelt came to Ogden to declare it a forest reserve before USFS ever existed. Why? To protect watersheds whose water was the lifeblood of downstream communities, but with upstream clearcutting and overgrazing, rivers like the Logan were flooding towns in spring and then drying up in summer. Today, we have exceptionally good reliable water. This story is repeated over and over again across the American West. We already have grazing in our Wilderness areas (sometimes carefully implemented, but too often not). Let's not add roads to untracked reaches of our National Forests.

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