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Thread on opening National Forest roadless areas to roads and logging

David George Haskell · 17 Sept 2026

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  1. USFS already has a $6.9 billion deferred maintenance backlog for roads and bridges. They cannot keep up with the roads we already have. Building new ones is a huge waste of taxpayer dollars.
  2. Roads degrade water, land, native wildlife, and provide conduits for non-native species.

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