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I'm writing as someone who loves the Blue Ridge Mountains with my whole heart. Black Mountain our home, and Pisgah National Forest is where we go to remember who we are. We have probably thousands of pictures from the same overlooks, my kids growing taller in every one.
After Hurricane Helene, I watched the communities of western North Carolina show all of us what loving a place really requires: interdependence, resilience, and a fierce kind of hope. These mountains are still healing. The last thing they need is new roads and logging cut into the wild, quiet corners that hold the soil, clean the water, and shelter the creatures that were here long before us.
The Roadless Rule protects the places in Pisgah that don't belong to any one of us. They belong to all of us, and to the generations who'll come after. Please keep it in place. Some places are worth leaving just as they are.
— Sara Sterley, Black Mountain, NC