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In case you’ve forgotten your own founding principals, as Gifford Pinchot so aptly stated “WHEN CONFLICTING INTERESTS MUST BE RECONCILED, THE QUESTION SHALL ALWAYS BE ANSWERED FROM THE STANDPOINT OF THE GREATEST GOOD FOR THE GREATEST NUMBER OF PEOPLE IN THE LONG RUN”. These forests, rangelands, and natural areas belong to all of us - not just those who’s engines roar out through the forest quiet the loudest. Our National Forests are national treasures, and they deserve to be treated as such. If you want to see how roads impact a forest - look at the Black Hills NF. Fires, noxious weeds, land torn up, wildlife disturbed, water quality impacts, and the list goes on and on. There is no quiet in the Black Hills. There are no places untouched by tires. No day in the woods can be spent without the distant roar of UTV’s. What was once a wild place to be enjoyed by many, has been instead taken over by the few rich enough, lazy enough, and disconnected enough to think that the way to experience a forest is running a gas engine over a muddy trail. I want our children to know wild places. To hike, and hunt, and fish, and camp, and explore. All of these uses are lessened by opening our public lands to unfettered UTV and Jeep use. Our public lands are OURS. They are ALL OF OURS. They need to be protected for ALL OF US and the generations to come. We urge you not to roll back the roadless restrictions on our National Forests.