Action Alert: Speak Up for West Virginia’s Roadless Areas
The current administration is proposing to repeal the Roadless Area Conservation Rule, a policy that has protected nearly 45 million acres of national forest lands from most new road construction and commercial logging since 2001.
The Forest Service released its draft Environmental Impact Statement on the proposed repeal on August 20, opening a public comment period through September 21. We will add YOUR name to our Comment Letter opposing the revocation of this important Forest protection.
Here in West Virginia, that includes about 182,000 acres of roadless forest across the Monongahela and George Washington and Jefferson National Forests. These areas include some of our most treasured landscapes, such as Roaring Plains, Seneca Creek, Cheat Mountain, Canaan Loop, Tea Creek, North Fork Mountain, and Hills Creek Falls.
Roadless forests protect clean drinking water, provide habitat for wildlife, and offer places for people to hike, fish, hunt, paddle, and find quiet and solitude. They are also important to the health of the streams and rivers that flow through them.
Want to take your advocacy one step further?
- Submit a comment directly to the Federal Register in addition to signing our petition.
- Talk to your friends about this critical issue and ask them to sign the petition. You can send them this link: act.wvrivers.org/a/roadless-rule
- We are also looking for people to write letters to the editor opposing the revocation of protections for Roadless Areas. Reach out to Mike Jones at mjones@wvrivers.org for more information.
Thank you for standing up for clean water.
-West Virginia Rivers Coalition
