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Protect Colorado's Pristine National Forests
Target: U.S. Forest ServiceSponsored by: Heritage Forests Campaign
The Bush Administration is set to begin a national rulemaking that could weaken regulations currently protecting more than 4.4 million acres of Colorado's undeveloped national forest roadless areas.
These areas currently enjoy protection under the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, but through this process, the door could be opened to mining, logging, road construction, oil and gas development as well as other corporate special interests.
The proposed Colorado Roadless Rule would leave national forests in Colorado less protected than national forests elsewhere in the country, as other states would still be covered under the broader, stronger 2001 roadless rule.
Please sign the letter below to let the Forest Service know that you want all of Colorado's roadless areas protected. Ask them not to remove the current protections provided by the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
These areas currently enjoy protection under the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule, but through this process, the door could be opened to mining, logging, road construction, oil and gas development as well as other corporate special interests.
The proposed Colorado Roadless Rule would leave national forests in Colorado less protected than national forests elsewhere in the country, as other states would still be covered under the broader, stronger 2001 roadless rule.
Please sign the letter below to let the Forest Service know that you want all of Colorado's roadless areas protected. Ask them not to remove the current protections provided by the 2001 Roadless Area Conservation Rule.
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We signed the “Protect Colorado's Pristine National Forests” petition!
# 28,031:
2:32 pm PST, Feb 29,
Debra Brinker, Ohio
# 28,030:
10:21 am PST, Feb 29,
Geri Mellgren-Kerwin, California
If the wilderness areas in Colorado are not kept roadless, they will be destroyed. Since America is becoming a de-industrialized Third World country, whose weak currency is encouraging tourism, we want the tourists to have something to see. They won't want to look at clear-cut devestation!
If the wilderness areas in Colorado are not kept roadless, they will be destroyed. Since America is becoming a de-industrialized Third World country, whose weak currency is encouraging tourism, we want the tourists to have something to see. They won't want to look at clear-cut devestation!
# 28,029:
9:39 am PST, Feb 29,
Karen Loftus, Pennsylvania
# 28,028:
8:33 am PST, Feb 29,
Karen Wheeler, Colorado
Economists, biologists and ecologists have all agreed that wilderness areas are more valuable left standing as they are than cut up, stripped and scarred by logging, mining and drilling. Logging roads tear up the landscape, choke rivers and destroy habitat. These logging roads and devastated areas catch and concentrate surface and subsurface runoff whiech then back up, plugging culverts, blowing them out, and tearing the faces off hillsides and mountains, pushing enormous amounts of rubble and silt into streams and rivers. This, in turn, kills fish and forces the decline of wildlife in the area. And how will these roads be maintained? The road maintenance backlog is already in the billions of dollars. The Forest Service can't pay for it, nor are the timber or mining comapnies willing to do so. We need to stop and think about real costs and real benefits. Acre for acre, wilderness areas are far more valuable as they are, providing a host of valuable, life-sustaining services that support people, wildlife and a variety of ecostystems. We should not be so drastically undervaluing our assets.
Economists, biologists and ecologists have all agreed that wilderness areas are more valuable left standing as they are than cut up, stripped and scarred by logging, mining and drilling. Logging roads tear up the landscape, choke rivers and destroy habitat. These logging roads and devastated areas catch and concentrate surface and subsurface runoff whiech then back up, plugging culverts, blowing them out, and tearing the faces off hillsides and mountains, pushing enormous amounts of rubble and silt into streams and rivers. This, in turn, kills fish and forces the decline of wildlife in the area. And how will these roads be maintained? The road maintenance backlog is already in the billions of dollars. The Forest Service can't pay for it, nor are the timber or mining comapnies willing to do so. We need to stop and think about real costs and real benefits. Acre for acre, wilderness areas are far more valuable as they are, providing a host of valuable, life-sustaining services that support people, wildlife and a variety of ecostystems. We should not be so drastically undervaluing our assets.
# 28,027:
7:39 am PST, Feb 29,
Jayne Thompson, Pennsylvania
# 28,026:
7:37 am PST, Feb 29,
Name not displayed, Colorado
# 28,025:
4:12 am PST, Feb 29,
Cindy Burlingame, Florida
# 28,024:
1:57 am PST, Feb 29,
Burnett Thompson, Illinois
# 28,023:
11:20 pm PST, Feb 28,
Maren McConnell-Collins, California
# 28,022:
10:18 pm PST, Feb 28,
Teresa DeRush, Colorado
# 28,021:
8:13 pm PST, Feb 28,
Jasmine Guha-Castle, Texas
# 28,020:
7:27 pm PST, Feb 28,
Leann Moore, California
# 28,019:
4:29 pm PST, Feb 28,
R.G. Chip Skinner, Florida
# 28,018:
4:00 pm PST, Feb 28,
Kelly Marsh, Florida
# 28,017:
1:02 pm PST, Feb 28,
Jennifer M, Missouri
Roadless areas are few and far between, and there are threats to those that are in place.. We CANNOT allow the government or people who do not have the best interest of our wild places at heart control what happens. PLEASE, stand up for OUR remaining wildlife and beautiful, wild places by keeping ALL Roadless areas - like Colorado's - protected!
Roadless areas are few and far between, and there are threats to those that are in place.. We CANNOT allow the government or people who do not have the best interest of our wild places at heart control what happens. PLEASE, stand up for OUR remaining wildlife and beautiful, wild places by keeping ALL Roadless areas - like Colorado's - protected!
# 28,016:
12:30 pm PST, Feb 28,
Nan Kwiatek, Florida
# 28,015:
12:29 pm PST, Feb 28,
Kayleigh Gratz, Michigan
More roads will lead to more pollution in natural areas. It also takes the beauty away from the areas.
More roads will lead to more pollution in natural areas. It also takes the beauty away from the areas.
# 28,014:
12:06 pm PST, Feb 28,
Kay L. Linder, Colorado
We do not have the right to destroy what remains of wilderness in our country. We do not "own" this land - it was loaned to us by our children's children. Do not proceed in destroying Colorado's Roadless areas.
We do not have the right to destroy what remains of wilderness in our country. We do not "own" this land - it was loaned to us by our children's children. Do not proceed in destroying Colorado's Roadless areas.
# 28,013:
11:37 am PST, Feb 28,
Jeffrey Neff, Colorado
# 28,012:
9:14 am PST, Feb 28,
Name not displayed, Maryland
The Forest Service should serve the forest, not the other way around. Please keep the wild places wild.
The Forest Service should serve the forest, not the other way around. Please keep the wild places wild.
# 28,011:
8:37 am PST, Feb 28,
Name not displayed, Colorado
# 28,010:
6:46 am PST, Feb 28,
Emily Rose, Colorado
# 28,009:
11:04 pm PST, Feb 27,
Spencer Stevens, Colorado
# 28,008:
8:36 pm PST, Feb 27,
Ralph D. Eccles, Colorado
# 28,007:
8:34 pm PST, Feb 27,
Dana Radell, Florida
# 28,006:
7:24 pm PST, Feb 27,
Christian Leiva, California
# 28,005:
6:52 pm PST, Feb 27,
Name not displayed, Colorado
# 28,004:
6:31 pm PST, Feb 27,
Sylvia Angermeier, Texas
# 28,003:
6:15 pm PST, Feb 27,
Name not displayed, Colorado
# 28,002:
5:38 pm PST, Feb 27,
Dawn Ask Martin, Iowa