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What can we do to protect our roadless wilderness areas from this administrations attempt to revive all things anti-environment? Please read the article, I'm pasting a few highlight snippets. Please do everything you can to stop the mindless, misguided assault on our environment. We need roadless wilderness! Thank you. article snippets: ...these areas should not be viewed as mere sources of timber, pointing to their crucial ecological role in protecting and filtering the streams and rivers that provide clean drinking water to millions of Americans. The gnarled old-growth trees that have stood untouched for centuries in these places also act as a home to hundreds of threatened species, and are a vast carbon store in an age of climate breakdown. These roads often bring in new invasive species that can choke out native plants and animals. “It costs the public money to create these new roads and the Forest Service can barely maintain the roads it has,...Also, the easiest timber to get has already gone. We will be putting new, expensive roads into hard-to-reach areas, which will then erode and pollute the water supply. It just doesn’t make any sense.” Since the 1990s, wildfires have been nearly four times as likely to start in forests that have roads compared with roadless areas. In seeking to turn the clock back, the Trump administration is waving away years of scientific understanding of the role of forests, as it has attempted to do with our knowledge of the dangers, or otherwise, of greenhouse gases, vaccines and medicines. “If you show students today pictures of clearcut areas of forest they will say, ‘Yeah, yeah, that’s in the past, we solved that... To have this pop up again now is just shocking.” https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/oct/06/trump-logging-forests