Dear Secretary Rollins,
I strongly oppose the Proposed Rule rescinding the 2001 Roadless Rule.
Rolling back the Roadless Rule will open irreplaceable Montana landscapes up to large-scale logging, road construction, and other development that will industrialize our national forests. The Roadless Rule has protected irreplaceable roadless values while permitting fire suppression, fuels mitigation work, trail maintenance, and other forest management activities for the past 25 years. It is a fiscally responsible, environmentally sound, multiple-use management tool. This land is not a resource to exploit, it is our home and home to all animals we share it with. If you think there is anything to accomplish in clear cutting sacred land you are sorely mistaken. How far off from reality do we need to be to destroy and murder the regenerative life of nature, purely for our personal gain. How are you not empathetic enough to see that we are not the only living things on this earth and we all need each other to thrive. I am a teenager, I dont wish to spend my free time in tears writing the government, begging the government to not destroy the world I am being brought into. Im scared and I am tired, and I dont remember a time when I wasnt. Rescinding the roadless rule is not a solution. Have empathy, and take action on a living future. Thank you.
Please adopt the No Action alternative for the Final Rule.
Sincerely,
Phoebe Clarkson
Massachusetts