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Keep the Roadless Rule and Do Not nullify it. For the love of forests, future generations, our most precious preserved and protected habitats, please do what is right to protect our planet from being developed with roads. If we nullify the roadless rule, we open the door to monstrosities nobody wants - Hyperscale Data Centers, mining companies, power lines, overpriced condos and resorts, and devastation to every living being on Earth. We the people stand against the nullification of the roadless rule - overwhelmingly the comments are FOR preserving and defending the Roadless Rule. I am a 42 lover of the outdoors, Wisconsinite, and someone who has spent a small fortune exploring our national forests throughout his life. I went to every national forest in the country before I was 18. We the people do not believe nullifying the roadless rule is about protecting forests from wildfires. Congress passed H.J. Res. 140 via the Congressional Review Act to overturn a 20-year federal mining ban, opening over 250,000 acres of the Boundary Waters Canoe Area Wilderness watershed in northern Minnesota to sulfide-ore copper and nickel mining. Tom Tiffany and others in Congress like him voted to pass H.J. Res. 140 - which opened the door to Boundary Waters to a Chilean copper mining conglomerate - Antofagasta - he and others are giving a Chilean conglomerate the gateway to extract copper and sell it to China. How the heck does that Make America Great Again? It doesn't. Tom Tiffany - and others in power who want to nullify the roadless rule, are doing it again by opening the forests to mining, deforestation, and it starts with roads. It's obvious to anyone, and especially so to use who have seen The Great Outdoors. Let's set the scene from this classic - John Candy and Dan Akroyd are sitting in up north Wisconsin, looking over a lake, with trees as far as the eyes can see. The elected officials and corporations pushing to nullify and exterminate the roadless rule are Dan Akroyd's character in this case. The people are John Candy's. John asks Dan to describe what he sees looking out in the distance - at the paradise of water, land, forests, and peace. Dan's character: "I see the underdeveloped resources of northern Minnesota, Wisconsin, and Michigan. I see a syndicated development consortium exploiting over a billion and a half dollars in forest products. I see a paper mill, and if the strategic metals are there, a mining operation. A greenbelt between the condos on the lake and a waste management facility, focusing on the newest rage in toxic waste: medical refuse. Infected bandages, body parts, IV tubing, contaminated glassware, entrails, syringes, fluids, blood, low grade radioactive waste, all safely contained, sunken in the lake and sealed for centuries. Now, I ask you, what do you see?" John's character: "I, I, uh, I see trees" Don't be Dan Akroyd's character. Defend the Roadless Rule. It protects our country from deforestation, development, greed, extractive industries, mining, pollution. We must keep our country habitable for all living beings - including humans. The forests keep our ecosystem stable. You are our elected officials, you work for us. Remember that. If you don't represent us we will not vote for you and you will lose your power. Mother Earth needs you to represent the people and not greed. If you're religious, whatever God you pray to is watching you at this pivotal moment in history. Do what is right - Defend the Roadless Rule. Keep it safe, keep us safe. Water is Life. Mni Wiconi.