Tell Congress to fight for the roadless rule | Southern Environmental Law Center

Tell Congress to save the South’s wildest forests.

For decades, some of the South’s wildest public lands have been safeguarded by a critical Forest Service policy called the Roadless Rule. These roadless areas are home to world-famous recreation destinations, safeguard clean water, provide habitat to wildlife, and support local economies that depend on our public lands. 

But now, the U.S. Forest Service is proposing to rescind the Roadless Rule, putting these iconic places—and their countless benefits—on the chopping block.  

Revoking the Roadless Rule would open these remarkable places to reckless roadbuilding, harmful development, and destructive logging. You can stand up for these places by telling Congress to fight back against this misguided effort to get rid of the Roadless Rule and to ensure these spectacular public lands can be enjoyed by future generations. 

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Dear {contact_data~title} {contact_data~lastName},

I am writing to urge you to stand up for some of our nation’s wildest forests by opposing the Forest Service’s misguided push to get rid of the Roadless Rule.  
 
For decades, the Roadless Rule has protected some of {user_data~State}’s least developed and most popular public lands from unnecessary road construction, allowing these spectacular places to be enjoyed by hunters, anglers, hikers, mountain bikers, and other visitors. Roadless areas also provide critical support to local economies and ensure downstream communities have access to clean drinking water.  
 
But now the Forest Service is proposing to rescind the rule, a reckless move that would open these places to destructive development and harmful logging and mining projects. Revoking the Roadless Rule will do long-lasting damage to these important places and hurt the communities, economies, and local businesses that depend on them.

Protections for roadless areas on our national forests are incredibly popular. More than 600,000 people commented on the proposal to get rid of the Roadless Rule, with an estimated 99 percent of those comments opposing the planned recission. These are people from across the political spectrum, in both urban and rural areas, and in all parts of the country that agree these wild places should be safeguarded from reckless roadbuilding and destructive projects.

Please fight for our wildest public lands by pushing back on the Forest Service’s proposal to get rid of the rule.

Thanks,

{user_data~First Name} {user_data~Last Name}
{user_data~City}, {user_data~State} {user_data~ZIP Code}

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