craig, suspending the roadless rule removes protection for over 6 million acres of federal land in Montana alone. It will lead to logging and development which fragments habitat, especially habitat needed for grizzly bears and elk though 56% of other endangered species are also affected. It will increase wildfire danger and degrade water quality. Opening more and more public land to commercial exploitation makes outdoor recreation less and less possible. The general quality of hunting and fishing is in serious decline. What i mean by healthy habitat is what sustains healthy populations of game-- for their own sake and for our pursuit of them. Don't take my word for it. Read Aldo Leopold.
I Like your passion...but you've got some things wrong, starting with the use of the word "will" in your 2nd sentence. Could, may, might, etc. is much more appropriate.
Also, logging - as it's done in 2026 in the US - is typically more beneficial than not.
The claim about increased wildfire danger is speculative.
So is the one about water quality.
Open in land to public use - not "commercial exploitation" is more likely to be good than to cause harm.
The general quality of hunting and fishing is most definitely not in serious decline where I live...maybe it is where you live, but I doubt it's worse than it was in the 1960s and 1970s when the things we've done since then to improve the environment and habitat started.
