This comment is to note opposition to the 2001 Roadless Rule Rescission being proposed by the Forest Service. I advocate personally for any and all wilderness and Roadless areas but the Olympic Penninsula of Washington state is my favorite and the place where my love of wilderness began. I explored the now in jeopardy of logging Jupiter Ridge climbing Mt Jupiter with my father in 1976. Another nearby mon- protected area is Lena Lake which is an absolute jewel. Other equally valuable areas to protect that I have visited are the Tongass Nat'l. Forest of Alaska as well as Mt Hood area in Oregon and Tonto National Forest of Arizona. Their value as sources of clean air and water, critical carbon storage, habitats for intact eco-systems as well opportunities for recreation for current as well as future generations far out-weigh the short sighted gains that would be obtained with resource extraction. I would like to close with a quote from the great American author Wallace Stegner. "Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit the last virgin forests to be turned into comic books and plastic cigarette cases; if we drive the few remaining members of the wild species into zoos or to extinction; if we pollute the last clean air and dirty the last clean streams AND PUSH OUR PAVED ROADS THROUGH THE LAST OF THE SILENCE; so that never again will Americans be free in their own country from the noise, the exhausts, the stinks of human and automobile waste". - Wallace Stegner