“priceless history of the lands that built our people”
What it names
Roadless areas
Cheoah Bald
The comment
One Nation Under God. A crucial principle in our pledge of allegiance, to our people, its culture, and the foundation of our country. Whether it's creation or evolution or a combination of both it is every human being's duty to uphold, preserve, and protect the places that gave us a foothold to adapt and thrive over thousands of years. Rescinding the Roadless Rule is a direct act of disrespect to God, Mother Nature, their creations, and our legacy as a species. All have provided far more for us over our history on this planet than the corporate logging and development operations that have ever so recently, drastically decimated our native flora, fauna, and wild habitats. God our creator and our evolutionary ancestors would be appalled at the destruction and carelessness that has been inflicted on our natural environment. And now you want to double down and abolish this law, HOW DARE YOU.
Our governments, these bills, these laws, the legislation, the officials, all of it needs to stop being in favor of profit and consumption for corporate benefit and the short term incentives that follow. It is not sustainable, it is not morally sound, and it does not prioritize the longevity of our nation and its people. Most of all it does not take into account the priceless history of the lands that built our people and these 50 states. There is true tangible value in the services these places provide to average citizens. Plus the ecological and climate buffer they provide to our infrastructure and economy that would otherwise cost you millions without them.
Rescinding the Roadless Rule will allow corporate entities the direct access and capability to destroy key old growth forests around the country. These old growth forests are at the very top of the funnel for naturally filtering drinking water for millions. Disrupting these areas would cause immense water quality issues nationwide that would need to be solved with more infrastructure and water treatment plants that would also cost millions. These forests are home to some of the world's rarest creations and endangered species. The Cheoah Bald Salamander is a small near extinct species found only on one mountain top in North Carolina that is protected by the Roadless Rule. Allowing what's left of this little 2 inch amphibian's lineage to live in a fraction of what they used to call home. These forests and the greater lands that surround them are also sacred to the indigenous tribes that called our country home long before it was ever drawn on maps. After all we've done we owe it to them to preserve the Roadless Rule.
From a financial perspective the numbers have been run and the info is available to the public to research. It would cost us more to cut down, extract, and process the trees from these forests than the profit that would be yielded. Destroying our lands for an unprofitable industry. Due to the nation wide logging operations in the early 1900s that clear cut and destroyed almost all of our nation's forests, there are very few mega trees within these old growth forests today that equate to a significant profit. The trees you see from old black and white photos where there are 10 people standing side by side across. Trees on the west coast measuring 100 feet around the trunk alone and ones on the east coast up to 30 feet. All but a few are gone. Without the Roadless Rule there's no doubt they will all be gone. More money could probably be made from tourism and education, bringing people in to experience these places and teaching them what nature can create when respected and cared for.
If you believe in or even take a liking to One Nation Under God, Creation, Evolution, Mother Nature, "making the world a better place for future generations", clean water, cute salamanders, fishing, camping, hiking, birdwatching, our country's history and foundations, any of it, please DO NOT RESCIND the Roadless Rule.