My favorite leisure activity is hiking. I often hike in the designated roadless areas of the Willamette National Forest about 20 miles from my home. The forest already has hundreds of miles of roads. Many are poorly maintained or not maintained at all. Primitive roads attract illegal campers who are often responsible for careless ignition of wildfires and for crimes such as vehicle break ins, illegal dumping and vandalism. For fire suppression it would make more sense to maintain existing roads so you can patrol them instead of making more of them.
Non motorized uses of roadless areas are a valuable driver of our economy and non motorized uses do not degrade our water quality the way logging and mining do.
Clear cut logging turns fire resistant, multi species old growth forests into single species tree plantations where all the trees are the same age. These immature plantations burn much more readily than old growth. It takes decades for a new plantation to grow into a forest that can support a healthy ground fire without crowning out into a destructive wildfire.
Please keep our roadless areas road free!