“failing to fund for research centers that provide data and best practices”
“We want more research more funding”
The comment
I oppose the rescinding of the 2001
Roadless Area Conservation Rule by
removing and reserving 36 CFR part
294, subpart B. If Secretary of Agriculture Brooke L. Rollins were truly interested in sustainable forests, there are other routes to take than creating roads that bring in more risk of fire and threaten healthy habitat. There would be more (not less) foresters at work, there would be more investment in community/ federal cooperation, and the roadless rule would be amended as needed --- not revoked wholesale.
Currently the Forest service and the BLM are failing to protect old growth from logging by the government, failing to fund for research centers that provide data and best practices for forwst management and firefighting. Elimination of the road this rule is simply a way to make money for certain corporations aligned with the government. It is not for the benefit of communities and the United States people. We want our land protected. We want old growth and medium grows Forest to stay established to help fight climate change. We want more research more funding and more Foresters. Not more roads.