Comment Analysis · Docket FS-2025-0001

FS-2025-0001-609869

Opposes rescissionPosted October 7, 2026 On Regulations.gov

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

Topics

  • Water Quality Quantity
    • “protect the cold-water headwaters”
    • “put water quality... at risk”
    • “sustain the fisheries”
  • Wildlife Habitat
    • “habitat that sustain the fisheries”
    • “wildlife habitat”
    • “habitat restoration”
  • Recreation Tourism Public Use
    • “wild places I value”
    • “responsible recreation”
    • “outdoor economy I rely on”

What it names

Roadless areas
Bear Swamp

The comment

As a Michigan resident and Trout Unlimited supporter, I urge the Forest Service to retain the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule (Docket FS-2025-0001). Inventoried roadless areas in Michigan's national forests — including Bear Swamp in the Huron-Manistee — protect the cold-water headwaters and habitat that sustain the fisheries and wild places I value. The Rule has worked for 25 years while still allowing responsible recreation, grazing, fuels reduction, and habitat restoration. Opening these lands to new roads and industrial extraction would put water quality, wildlife habitat, and the outdoor economy I rely on at risk. Please keep the Roadless Rule in place.

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