Dear Special Areas: Roadless Area Conservation,
To Whom It May Concern in US Forest Service:
I am writing to you today to thank you for preserving our precious forests by keeping the Roadless Rule in force. Please do not repeal the Roadless Rule!
This rule has protected our forests for generations. Forest protection protects groundwater, recreational businesses, animal habitat(many of them already endangered), and all of us against climate change. Our children deserve and, in truth, require, intact forest space to preserve quality of earth, air, water, and life itself! The Roadless Rule protects all these things from unnecessary development and extraction. It is crucial to our survival!
When I was young, my father bought a piece of land outside the Chippewa National Forest. I had the good fortune to spend my summers there, and I learned a deep appreciation for silence where the only sounds are nature, Gods natural temple. The air smelled only of earth and pine, the water clear at 20 feet or more. The undisturbed lakes provided habitat for very kind of fish and fowl, cranberries grew in their wetlands,and a variety of animals made their homes there. Outside the forest boundary, small towns thrived on the sale of canoes,fishing equipment and basic food. These gifts remain today.
These many gifts remain in part because of the Roadless Rule which also preserve flyways for migratory birds and drinking water for tens of millions of people.The undisturbed forests are themselves a precious resource to be protected, not an unused space to be exploited! Tens of millions of acres of undisturbed forests will become vulnerable if the Roadless Rule is not kept to protect them. Development of these acres will extract from all of us a precious resource that cannot be replaced, all for a profit for individuals who already have enough, or too much money. All the money in the world cannot replace our forest preserves.
I beg you not to destroy protections that benefit all of us for the hope that a few may profit. Instead please collaborate with local groups and the states themselves to provide for changing needs. For the benefit of all of us, you, me, and our children's children, do not repeal this essential Roadless Rule.
Sincerely,
Sarah Dagg
sarah.l.dagg1604@gmail.com
Sincerely,
Sarah Dagg