Dear Secretary and Chief:
Dont let mans greed, ruin this countrys beauty - FDR
Peace, I will personally lose peace.
Peace on the water, peace in the woods, an escape from the busy go go go world we live in.
As an angler who fishes for native trout in country most people drive past on the highway, the rule covering that country is doing real work. I'd ask you to keep it doing it.
Regarding the Boggs Creek in the Chattahoochee National Forest, Georgia:
We have already destroyed so much, why not hold onto the last bit of wilderness we have. Don't you want your children to enjoy the outdoors? What about their children?
Almost 2000 species of animal or plant go extinct every single year. There are hundreds of endangered species in the Roadless Rule protected area. Keeping this rule intact can help these already endangered species.
30% of our National Forest system is protected by this rule. Almost One-Third. We are talking 58 million plus acres of wilderness. Untouched, unsoiled, unmolested land.
For the religious folks, what would Jesus do?
Roadless areas are disproportionately important habitat for federally listed threatened and endangered plants and animals.
Roadless areas fill gaps in the existing protected-area network. Adding all Inventoried Roadless Areas to the U.S. protected-area system would reduce the number of imperiled wildlife species considered "poorly represented" in protected areas by 38 species. Roadless areas particularly increase representation of underprotected ecosystem types, including temperate grasslands (+57%) and cool temperate forests (+52%) (Talty et al. 2020; Dietz et al. 2021). — Talty et al., 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.288); Belote, 2020 (https://doi.org/10.1111/csp2.288); Dietz et al., 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01943); UNKNOWN, 2021 (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.gecco.2021.e01943)
Rescinding the Roadless Rule would open the Boggs Creek, Chattahoochee National Forest to road construction and associated ground disturbance. The direct and indirect effects of that activity are precisely what makes a specific comment about this area necessary.
If the Department is genuinely listening to the public, it should be hearing a consistent message: keep the Rule.
Best,
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