1. United States
2. Calif.
3. Letter

Oppose the Trump administration's proposal to rescind the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This rule has protected nearly 45 million acres of national forests for 25 years. Gutting it would open those lands to industrial logging, drilling, and road construction — and once those roads are bulldozed in, there's no getting them back. The wildfire justification doesn't hold up. Roads increase ignitions and spread fires faster, not slower. The roadless rule already allows targeted hazardous fuels treatments — what it blocks is using wildfire as cover to hand America's last intact old-growth forests over to industry. The Tongass alone stores vast amounts of carbon and supports thousands of jobs through fisheries, tourism, and recreation. These are public lands. They belong to all of us. The public comment deadline is September 21. Go on record opposing this rollback before it's too late.