Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

FS-2025-0001-594250

Opposes rescissionPosted October 6, 2026 On Regulations.gov

Not scored for substance: the comment does not clear the floor of substantive signal.

Topics

  • Recreation Tourism Public Use
    • “spend no less than 30 days a year recreating in the Daniel Boone National Forest”
    • “spend my vacations visiting National forests in different states”
    • “remove some of the existing road infrastructure”
  • Forest Management Wildfire
    • “vast majority wildfires start within 2 miles of a road”
    • “building a road into a forest is a near-irreversible and permanent decision”
    • “Responsible, sustainable timber management occurs in our working forests”
  • Environmental Protection Biodiversity
    • “deep discomfort and opposition to the rescission of the roadless rule”
    • “idea that we need more roads in any area of this country”
    • “Do not rescind the roadless rule”

What it names

National Forests
Daniel Boone National Forest

The comment

I am writing to proclaim my deep discomfort and opposition to the rescission of the roadless rule. I am an 8th generation south eastern Kentuckian and spend no less than 30 days a year recreating in the Daniel Boone National Forest mostly while hunting. More than that, I spend my vacations visiting National forests in different states every year from Alabama to Montana. There is nothing I wish to change more about our national forests than to remove some of the existing road infrastructure. What is unfathomable to me is the idea that we need more roads in any area of this country. Responsible, sustainable timber management occurs in our working forests all over the country. While I understand short term needs may weigh heavily on us, we need to understand that building a road into a forest is a near-irreversible and permanent decision. We have 4.2 million miles of roads in the US. 380,000 of those miles of roads are already in our national forests. More than enough to reach the moon. Let's remember the vast majority wildfires start within 2 miles of a road. Do not do this. Do not rescind the roadless rule.

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