“protect roadless areas for current and future generations”
The comment
I urge you to keep the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule fully in place. Roadless forests protect clean drinking water, wildlife habitat, and carbon storage, and they preserve places like the wild backcountry surrounding Crater Lake, where undeveloped forests help safeguard the watersheds and quiet landscapes that make the region so special. New roads and logging in these areas would fragment habitat, increase erosion and wildfire risk, and add costs to a Forest Service that already can't maintain its existing road network. Once these places are developed, they can't be restored, so please protect roadless areas for current and future generations. Thank you for considering my comment.