Strongly Oppose Proposed Rescission of the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule – Docket FS-2025-0001
To the U.S. Forest Service and U.S. Department of Agriculture:
I am writing to express my strong opposition to any efforts to rescind, weaken, or roll back the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
As a resident who cares deeply about our public lands, I rely on the integrity and protection of our inventoried roadless areas. I frequently visit or recreate near [Insert specific local roadless area or national forest, e.g., the Rattlesnake or Lolo National Forest areas] in [Insert your city/state]. Protecting these unfragmented landscapes is important to me because they safeguard critical wildlife habitats, maintain clean headwater watersheds, store vital carbon, and provide world-class backcountry recreation.
Rescinding this rule would remove essential nationwide baselines, fragmenting management and opening millions of acres of wildlands to potential road building and commercial logging.
I urge the U.S. Forest Service to abandon the proposed rescission and maintain full, durable protections for all designated inventoried roadless areas.
Sincerely,
Natalie Pertsovsky
Missoula, Montana