10/05/2026
Watch the full video, learn more, find interactive maps, USFS & RR facts, talking points & use ECC's easy COMMENT BUILDER to submit your own public comments by Oct 6 at the QR code in these slides or go to:
EmeraldCurtainCollective.org/Act-now
Emerald Curtain Collective has created a great Action Center on their website, so after Submitting your Roadless Rule comment, please visit it often to keep up with protecting our bedrock environmental laws and our shared Public Lands.
We should all be deeply concerned about the most recent challenge to the integrity of America’s national forests– the proposed repeal of the 2001 U.S.FS Roadless Area Conservation Rule. This could open up 45 million acres of our public lands to road-building, logging, mining, and development. & this could include new DATA CENTERS. The Admin is already taking multiple steps to allow hundreds of proposed Data Centers on Public Lands.
We all must all tell the USFS what Roadless areas on our National Forests mean to us, why they are important, & why their protections need to be retained & strengthened, instead of repealed.
Wildfire fighting access & other uses are already built in. There are already too many loopholes that allow "fuel management" AKA logging & mining, extraction & even "temporary roads". Logging roads degrade streams. More clearcuts= More toxic herbicides too!
Roadless wildlands protected under this rule provide abundant benefits to nature and to people. In their current status, roadless areas provide critical wildlife habitat, mature contiguous forests, scenic vistas, clean water for fish & about 100 mill people, carbon storage, hunting, fishing, ATV & recreation opportunities. Oregon's outdoor economy relies on this!
One often overlooked crucial benefit is that they are critical to the preservation of Wilderness character, including the “qualities” & “values”
The absence of Inventoried Roadless Areas adjacent to Wilderness would make it much more likely that industrial forest mngt would occur right up to the wilderness boundary, & in those that do not have this de facto buffer, it already does.
Go to ECC's link to Learn More & Act by Oct 6, 8:59pm PST
