“I enjoy recreating on our beautiful public lands”
“It is a gift to be able to hike and camp in these parts of our great country”
“We travel to Washington state specifically to enjoy our public lands”
“critical ecosystems to maintain”
What it names
Works cited
10.1186/s42408-026-00450-2
The comment
I strongly oppose rescinding the Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This objection includes full or partial rescission.
I am a constituent in Pennsylvania and an analyst by day. I enjoy recreating on our beautiful public lands. It is a gift to be able to hike and camp in these parts of our great country.
We travel to Washington state specifically to enjoy our public lands. Olympic, Mt Baker, Gifford Pinchot, and Wenatchee National Forests each surround our national parks in WA and are critical ecosystems to maintain.
Opening up ANY of the 40M+ acres of our national forests is clearly against the will of the American majority and is strictly a money-grabbing scheme.
Clean Drinking Water - watersheds will be impacted by logging, development, and roads. Sediment builds up and would need to be filtered out. Chemicals from roads and development also leech into water systems. At least 25 million Americans would be negatively impacted by this. Furthermore, this will increase the reliance on public water systems and drive up costs for people. (Source https://www.washington.edu/news/2026/07/15/roadless-rule-helps-protect-clean-drinking-water-new-study-shows/)
Wildfires/Drought - let’s be clear here. It has been well established that most fires are caused by humans. Wildfires near roads are four times more likely to occur than in roadless or wilderness areas. (Source https://link.springer.com/article/10.1186/s42408-026-00450-2) Claiming that thinning the forests and/or building roads to mitigate fire risk or severity is “science-based” is a farce. This administration clearly does not put stock in science. Also, I’m not sure which scientists you claimed to have gotten this information from, but they do in fact disagree. (Source https://www.npr.org/2025/08/28/nx-s1-5468957/trump-administration-argues-that-more-roads-would-help-against-wildfires) Additionally, droughts are intensified by climate change. (Source https://www.usgs.gov/science/science-explorer/climate/droughts-and-climate-change#overview) Climate change is worsened by deforestation. (Source https://earth.org/deforestation-global-warming/)
Public Sentiment - this is not something that the American majority wants rescinded. The last time a rescission was proposed by the administration, over 600k comments were submitted and almost 99% oppose rescission.
This is bogus. This is being proposed for the sole purpose of benefitting logging and mining companies at the detriment of our people and our land. We the people want to retain this rule.