Please rescind the roadless rule and open our forests to motorized recreation,dispersed camping and forest thinning projects.
Many people think our current environment protection laws protect our forests,wildlife and water quality.After 5 decades of hiking,biking,skiing,fishing,dirtbike riding and dispersed camping in Eldorado National Forest I've found that what is not burned is horribly overgrown and could be the next wildfire! I believe the fires and overgrowth have been caused by overly zealous environment protecting non profits and the donating overly emotional public suing the USFS using our innapropriatley written environment protection laws which doesn't allow the USFS to do their job!
The Wilderness act doesn't allow for fire protection.Example-The Tamarack Fire which could have been put out with a hand crew burn't 68,637 acres and devastated Alpine counties scenic wonder land and threatened Markleeville Ca. and Topaz Ranch Estates Nv.
Endangered Species Act closed Northern Californias forests to logging for 40 years which led to devastating logging based communities,mills closing,a monopoly by Sierra Pacific Industries and an overgrown forest which led to 18 million acres burn't in Northern Ca. between 2015 and 2024! it took biololigists 40 years to figure out the spotted owl was in jeapordy from it's natural enemy the barred owl.By the way thse fires caused home owners insurance and power bills to have huge increases!
The Roadless act caused the USFS to close every dirt road and trail that wasn't on their maps. What it did to my family and other forest recreationists and loggers was close our dispersed camp areas,firewood cutting areas,motorized travel and and mechanized thinning! These are but a few examples of the inequity of our laws!
If we want a healthy forest we need to modify or lose our environment protection laws.We need to allow the USFS to properly manage our forests.