I am heavily against rescinding this rule. The preservation of ancient forests is an important and integral part of ensuring that the world does not experience further ecological decline. It is all to easy to think that such actions can be reversed, but the clearing of ancient growth forests for road construction can damage what will take centuries of undisturbed maintenance to repair. As such, this is a case where an ounce of prevention is worth several pounds of cure. The proposal makes reference to "overgrown and fuel-loaded national forests," but that is precisely the reason the rule was established in the first place. Without a proper blanket regulatory prohibition, it can be all to easy for these irreplaceable features of our country to be destroyed, with no way to get them back without centuries of dedicated time investment.