“The erosion caused by high traffic will further degrade waterways”
“affecting streams and the fish”
“and reptiles, and the plant life they need to survive”
What it names
Works cited
Andrews et al. 2015
The comment
Please do not rescind the roadless rule. Wildlife and the natural environment need open and wilderness spaces without being harassed by people on ATV’s, dirt bikes, side by sides, and trucks. The disruption of the wilderness is too high a price on all of us. We need wilderness and to get there under our own power makes it healthier and safer for everyone. Can’t we just have some nice places to go in the wilderness, or protect the wildlife that live there and don’t want to be chased and injured by disrespectful people? This would make poaching more accessible to those criminals and very difficult for investigators. I’ve watched people in the backcountry chase and harass wild horses and other herd animals that get separated from their young and stressed beyond survival. It’s sickening, but that’s how some people are. Hunters do NOT want you to rescind the roadless rule, because they know how depleted the herds already are and how irresponsible people can be. There is no skill to running down game and killing animals that way. This is important to people, like veterans, to find quiet and solace in the wilderness. Why can’t we have nice things like that? Why do you possibly think that opening it will benefit anyone except those unwilling to walk or get back there under their own power? We all need the exercise, the quiet, the peace of wilderness. The erosion caused by high traffic will further degrade waterways, affecting streams and the fish, and reptiles, and the plant life they need to survive. Please do not rescind the roadless rule.