Dear Chief Tom Schultz:
As someone who has navigated public land on foot for most of my adult life, I know what the absence of roads does for a place.
Losing roadless spaces deprives people like me of a place to escape the near-ubiquitous sound of motors and impact of vehicles.
Regarding the Pagoda Peak in the Routt NF, Colorado:
New road construction, reconstruction, and associated development fragment habitat, introduce disturbance, and eliminate roadless character.
Rescinding the Roadless Rule would open the Pagoda Peak, Routt NF to road construction and associated ground disturbance. The direct and indirect effects of that activity are precisely what makes a specific comment about this area necessary.
Roadless areas have a character all their own. There is a stillness, an undisturbed quality, and a solitude that is destroyed by the intrusion of roads.
Keep the Roadless Rule on the books.
With kind regards,
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