“Beloved to scores of people... who... visit as they pass through”
“Please preserve our true HOME”
What it names
Roadless areas
Cheat Mountain
The comment
To whom it may concern,
I am a lifelong resident of Morgantown, WV and a lover of our precious forests, in and outside of her borders. Cheat Mountain, one of countless sites that would be impacted by reversing these protections, is like a second home to me. Beloved to scores of people (and animals) who not only live in this area, but visit as they pass through, lifting these protections would have a devastating impact on some of the last of the protected land we have left. West Virginia. Mountain Mama. Our homes aren't structures with four walls - they are the hills. They are the mountains. They are the trees. They are the rivers. Please preserve our true HOME.
I beg you NOT to reverse this rule, keeping construction out of these areas, and leaving our trees to stand.
Citizen and voter,
Elissa Momen