Include fire in your comment letter to protect the Roadless Rule:
1) We are failing to fully protect our communities in roaded landscapes and need to focus on those people and places first.
2) We should not expand suppression resources into roadless areas because it is a diversion of these resources needed for community protection. Roadless areas are more fire-resilient and are degraded by such aggressive fire suppression.
3) Firefighter safety is needlessly put at extra risk in roadless areas that have some of the most rugged terrain in remote areas. This endangers the lives and health of firefighters while mis-allocating important resources that should be going to protect communities.
4) Roadless areas are some of the best candidates for restoration led with Indigenous stewardship practices and ecological fire management.
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