Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

FS-2025-0001-564441

Opposes rescissionPosted October 5, 2026 On Regulations.gov

Not scored for substance: the comment does not clear the floor of substantive signal.

Topics

Wildlife Habitat
- “Fragment wildlife habitat”
- “disrupt wildlife movement and ecological connectivity”
- “Increase vehicle access and human disturbance in previously remote areas”
Water Quality Quantity
- “Alter natural drainage patterns”
- “Increase runoff, erosion, and impacts on water quality”
Environmental Protection Biodiversity
- “Provide pathways for invasive plants and other nonnative species to spread”
- “create new forest edges”

What it names

National Forests: Apalachicola National Forest Ocala National Forest Osceola National Forest
Roadless areas: Alexander Springs CreekClear LakeFarles PrairieGum BayImpassable BayLong BayNatural Area Wsa

The comment

All three of Florida’s national forests—Apalachicola, Ocala, and Osceola—contain inventoried roadless areas: Apalachicola National Forest — 24,890 acres Clear Lake, Gum Bay, Long Bay, and Savannah Ocala National Forest — 4,855 acres Alexander Springs Creek and Farles Prairie Osceola National Forest — 20,737 acres Impassable Bay, Natural Area WSA, and Pinhook Altogether, 50,482 acres in Florida’s three national forests are included in the federal roadless-area inventory. Fragment wildlife habitat and create new forest edges. Increase vehicle access and human disturbance in previously remote areas. Alter natural drainage patterns. Increase runoff, erosion, and impacts on water quality. Provide pathways for invasive plants and other nonnative species to spread. Roads permitted in this change will disrupt wildlife movement and ecological connectivity.