Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

FS-2025-0001-571269

Supports rescissionPosted October 6, 2026 On Regulations.gov

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

Topics

  • Governance Policy Process
    • “local authorities and the public who live in sensitive areas, should have the deciding power”
    • “return decision-making for road construction... to local officials”
    • “Forest-level land management planning”
  • Resource Development Extraction
    • “Corporations take over way too much of our natural lands”
    • “for money making purposes”
    • “corporate enrichment”

What it names

National Forests
Tongass National Forest
Law cited
Executive Order 14153

The comment

The attached, following section the proposed rule is what I am for. I firmly believe local authorities and the public who live in sensitive areas, should have the deciding power. Corporations take over way too much of our natural lands. When they do, even if started in a small way, or for money making purposes, our country loses precious natural environments and ancestral history that is very important to the character of this nation. Most importantly, if we encroach upon every last piece of open land to build imposing, modern roads for the purpose of corporate enrichment , we are helping to destroy the last vestiges of our natural environment. Look into the future and envision what America will become. It’s not ultimately to our advantage. “Rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule is intended to return decision-making for road construction, road reconstruction, and timber harvest in inventoried roadless areas to local officials, in conjunction with Forest-level land management planning. As directed by Executive Order 14153: Unleashing Alaska’s “Extraordinary Resource Potential, the proposed rule will expressly exclude the Tongass National Forest from the 2001 Roadless Rule.”

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