“A lot of roadless areas and wilderness study areas do not have marktetae timber at all”
“terrain is not suitable or economically feasible to log”
“desire to squeeze every penny out of resources”
What it names
Roadless areas
Middle Fork
The comment
I am asking you to please uphold the Roadless Rule . It is important to the protection of healthy intact natural systems for wildlife and provides important wilderness experience recreation opportunities. I have spent my career and live working and recreating in roadless area. From 8 seasons working on the Middle Fork of the Salmon River I. The Frank Church Wilderness to other area through out OR, ID, MT, and WY. These are vital to preserving large roadless areas. We need to foster a land ethic not just punch more roads in and open more acces for side by sides and other mechanized vehicles. These places are vital.
The propaganda to open the. Are false. Only 3% of wildifres start in roadless( by the way j also work in wildland fire…). To say roadless fires are larger and more destructive would do more toward policy of let it burn than the fires themselves. If fires out of roadless areas where managed similarly they would and already do get large. We have back log of roads on public lands that already need maintenexd and to add more that we can take care of is foolish. A lot of roadless areas and wilderness study areas do not have marktetae timber at all. They include canyons and deserts. Much of WY has little marketable timber to begin with. There is a reason roadless areas exist in that the terrain is not suitable or economically feasible to log in the first place. There is no need to open roadless areas other than this administrations desire to squeeze every penny out of resources with no regard to conservation, stewardship or protection of these places for future generations. In light of urban sprawl, urban wildland interface and lose of connected habitat for animals that require large intact habitat it is more important than ever. As technology and the I ability to get away from technology creeps in at an alarming rate we need to protect wild places to recreate.
Please do NOT rescind this. The people pushing for do not spend time in these places. roadless and wilderness and protecting OUR public lands has huge public bipartisan. Support. Listen to the public and not just representative with no wildlife management background like Harriet Hageman or a Mike Lee. Thanks you for your time.