“depend on the outdoors to bring people into their businesses”
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The current administration is opening protected lands to development, mining, oil & gas drilling. With the intention of getting more money for himself, his family, his friends and any billionaire willing to back him.
I’m disgusted by the way everyone just gives him what he wants. There are no consequences for any of these people that would deter them from making money. They’d sell their mother’s pacemaker right out of her (still alive) warm body.
The Forest Service has to keep the Roadless Rule intact, exactly as it is, utilizing Alternative 1 in the current DEIS. No change. Leave the rule as it stands today. Rescinding the Roadless Rule serves no one but the filthy rich glutinous pigs that benefit financially from the rule ending.
Roadless areas provide important benefits to everyone, including clean drinking water, wildlife habitat, and protection from the impacts of development. Nature is paramount to physical, psychological and spiritual wellbeing.
Rescinding the Roadless Rule will increase development, reduce natural wildlife habitat, and increase wildfire risk. The local economy will be affected by rescinding the Roadless Rule. Local businesses that depend on the outdoors to bring people into their businesses will lose their main source of income. This includes all vacation rentals, grocery stores, restaurants & gear rentals, all of whom will undoubtedly loose enough business that employees are released and businesses close.
The Roadless Rule has provided consistent, nationwide protections for these special places for decades.
The Forest Service must not weaken those protections or open currently protected roadless lands to new development, and you should be helping and supporting Alternative 1 and retain the existing Roadless Rule protections.
Sincerely,
Lisa DeChiara
3 Millenium Way Rockland, MA 02370-1277
lisadechiara@ymail.com