1. United States
2. Nev.
3. Letter

Vote no on Senator Mike Lee's Roadless Rule Nullification amendment, attached as a rider to the Wildfire Prevention Act of 2026. This amendment would strip protections from 45 million acres of public land across 37 states and permanently bar the Forest Service from ever reinstating similar rules. That's not reform — that's a permanent giveaway of America's best hunting and fishing ground. The Roadless Rule isn't a bureaucratic abstraction. It protects trophy elk country in Montana's Elk Horn Mountains, wild salmon habitat in the Tongass National Forest, and native brook trout headwaters across the East. The Forest Service already manages 370,000 miles of roads and can't keep up — more than half of its $10 billion maintenance backlog comes from existing roads. Building more roads we can't afford to maintain makes no sense. When the rule was first proposed, 90 percent of 1.6 million public comments supported it, with many calling for even stronger protections. Please vote no.