I own two vacant parcels in Wonder Valley, in the Mojave Desert near the San Bernardino National Forest, and I am writing as a neighbor of these lands. For 25 years the 2001 Roadless Rule has kept 58.5 million acres of national forest intact: the headwaters, the wildlife corridors, the ground that holds water in a region that cannot afford to lose it. In the desert you learn quickly that everything is connected. A road cut into a roadless watershed does not stay a local decision. The sediment, the fragmentation, the human-caused fire starts that follow new access, they all travel downstream to the rest of us. The Forest Service's own record shows fuel treatments already happen in roadless areas, and the research is clear that new roads bring more ignitions, not fewer. Please keep the Roadless Rule in place. Some protections work precisely because they are national. This is one of them.