Re: Docket No. FS-2025-0001, RIN 0596-AD66 — Proposed rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule
My name is Kari Hansen. I live in rural Washington County, Oregon, five miles down a gravel road from the nearest pavement. The woods are not scenery to me. They are where I live.
I live in the Tualatin Mountains on the edge of Oregon's Coast Range, so the Siuslaw National Forest is my neighboring national forest. Places like the roadless ridges around Mount Hebo are the kind of country I live beside. The Mt. Hood National Forest's roadless acres matter to me too. And across the river in Washington, the Dark Divide in the Gifford Pinchot National Forest is the largest unprotected roadless area in the Cascades, and it deserves to stay that way.
I oppose rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule. It has protected some of the last large undeveloped forests in this country for 25 years. Once the roads go in, the quiet goes, the clean water goes, and the habitat goes, and none of that comes back.
Please keep the 2001 Roadless Rule in place.
Kari Hansen
North Plains, Oregon