“open millions of acres to road building, logging, mining, and drilling”
“more timber for private industry”
“opened to private interests”
The comment
I oppose the proposal to fully or partially rescind the Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
I've spent my career in climate, helping some of the world's largest companies reduce their environmental impact. I know lasting progress depends on clear, enforceable rules that protect shared resources. Before this work, I watched public lands opened to private interests in ways that degraded public welfare and left communities to bear the costs. Any repeal would repeat that pattern.
Repeal would open millions of acres to road building, logging, mining, and drilling. Wildfire is the stated reason, but the clearer motive is more timber for private industry.
These forests store carbon, shelter wildlife, and protect drinking water for millions. Please reject this repeal and protect them for future generations.
The Forest Service should keep the Roadless Rule intact exactly as it is. Do not weaken or repeal this critical policy.
National forests are the heart of our public lands. The Roadless Area Conservation Rule protects some of the wildest forests we have left, forests that protect critical wildlife habitat and drinking water for millions. Revoking the Roadless Rule puts landscapes, wildlife, and communities at risk.
Not only is the Roadless Rule good policy, it's also wildly popular across the country, with over 600,000 people submitting comments to the US Forest Service last year in support of keeping the rule in place. And more than 20 years ago, the American people overwhelmingly called for our national forests to be protected for future generations. Revoking the Roadless Rule would destroy the natural inheritance we leave for our children.