No to the Roadless Rule rollback. By opening these areas, we have little way to protect the Natural environment and habitats that will be greatly affected negatively. Species will loose their native habitat and possibly become extinct- down to the smallest critters necessary to promote forest health. Another major issue is Forest fires. My family and I live inside the Sequoia National Forest. On a yearly basis we see what human traffic does to our forests. Careless and accidental fires threaten the our home every year. I hear arguments for opening these roads using the excuse that firefighters will be able to access the fires quicker. I beg to differ. First, our Fire crews are understaffed due to Trumps firings. We currently don't even have the manpower to fight the fires, dig fire lines, etc...with roads being open there now adds the problem of additional people to evacuate. We will need more first responders which are not readily available in rural areas- I doubt that has been considered. Maintenance, who will maintain these roads- again, they were fired and the Forest Service hasn't restaffed. In our particular areas we sit on the Kern and Tulare county line, rarely do we see Forest service patrolling this area. They close the State campgrounds but people still camp there leaving massive, I mean tremendous amounts of garbage, leftover food, human waste. All this adds up and it doesn't just go away- it floats downstream, it is carried off by birds, dropped wherever. Ingested and potentially poisonous. There are many more reasons these roads need remain closed. The future of our protected forests needs to be sustained by keeping human traffic regulated and from many areas restricted.
With my utmost hope for our Country's future.