Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

FS-2025-0001-605354

Opposes rescissionPosted October 7, 2026 On Regulations.gov

Not scored for substance: the comment does not clear the floor of substantive signal.

Topics

  • Recreation Tourism Public Use
    • “less appealing for hiking and recreating”
    • “negatively impact the tourism industries”
    • “preserve them as areas for public use”
  • Environmental Protection Biodiversity
    • “irreparable damage to public lands”
    • “keep our public lands undeveloped as intended”
    • “Areas already negatively impacted by Hurricane Helene will be further damaged”
  • Resource Development Extraction
    • “not private or corporate extraction”
    • “Adding roads will increase the likelihood of fires from automobile traffic”
    • “use of land by individuals less likely to care for and protect the area”

What it names

National Forests
Pisgah National Forest

The comment

Please do not charge or rescind the roadless rule. Rescinding the roadless rule will cause irreparable damage to public lands throughout the country, but particularly in my home state of North Carolina. Areas already negatively impacted by Hurricane Helene will be further damaged. Adding roads will increase the likelihood of fires from automobile traffic and use of land by individuals less likely to care for and protect the area. Sections of Pisgah National Forest will become less appealing for hiking and recreating and this will also negatively impact the tourism industries in areas already hurt by Helene. Please keep our public lands undeveloped as intended and preserve them as areas for public use, not private or corporate extraction.

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