I am a Seattle outdoor enthusiast who has spent years hiking and photographing scenery and wildlife in Washington's national forests, including inventoried roadless areas of the Olympic National Forest and many other places around our beautiful state. I urge the Forest Service to withdraw this proposal and retain the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. These roadless tracts are some of the last large, connected, unfragmented habitats in the Pacific Northwest, which are the corridors that wide-ranging species like spotted owls, marbled murrelets, and Cascade carnivores depend on, and that I enjoy documenting firsthand through my iNaturalist observations. The agency's stated rationale, local flexibility for wildfire and forest-health work, does not require rescinding the existing rule: roads themselves are ignition sources, and most of the fuels-reduction work the agency wants to do happens near communities, not deep in the backcountry. A much better solution would be more rangers who can spend more time on patrol, enforcing existing rules and burn bans - which I see violated on a regular basis even while being outside is not my fulltime job. If I had the ability to issue tickets to people being reckless in the backcountry, we'd probably fix the national deficit. And, obviously, the issue isn't even always behavior - cars themselves can ignite fires when conditions are hot enough. Rescission trades in a 25-year conservation framework for speculative management benefits that individual forest plans can already achieve without this harmful step. I think we know why the government is pushing for this, and the stated rationale is quite clearly a pretext to hide the real motivations behind rescission. Please retain the existing rule.