My name is Devney, I am a student in Washington DC and I'm from Ohio.
I grew up camping and fishing in the allegheny national forest. We would catch crawfish and climb trees and felt like kings of the forest. It taught my siblings and I to care for the land because it cared for us. It built our fires and provided our entertainment.
There is no reason I should have to fight the same fight that my grandparents and my parents all have to preserve our land. My kids deserve a childhood in nature and science backs that up. Kids who grow up near national forests or other accessible public lands are on average more literate and better communicators. In the literacy crisis today we should be doing all we can to help youth learn to read and enjoy reading, and believe it or not, public lands play a big role in that.
For the sake of the future generations m, the Roadless Rule should not be rescinded.