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| Miss that Roadless Meeting? Still want to voice your opinion? | | Saturday, January 7, 2006 | Here is a template that you can used to submit a comment by mail. Please add your own input to this.
The Keystone Center
ATTN: Roadless Areas Review
1628 Sts. John Road
Keystone, CO 80435
Re: Comment on Roadless Review regarding the following forests
Grand Mesa-Uncompahgre-Gunnison, San Juan, and Pike-San Isabel National Forests, Arapaho-Roosevelt National Forest, Rio Grande, White River, Manti-La Sal, and Routt National Forests
Dear Roadless Review Team,
Please include these comments in the record for each of the above listed forests & consider them as you decide the fate of Roadless Areas in Colorado. I am an OHV user and I would like to OHV access managed. I do not want to see OHV opportunities reduced in any way.
I am in favor of releasing Roadless Areas back into standard National Forest Lands if there is no inherent loss of OHV access, trail designations, or other OHV detrimental effects.
I am concerned that you may consider designating some of the current Roadless Areas as Wilderness. I oppose that for a number of reasons. One of the most compelling is that the Roadless Rule states Roadless Areas were created to preserve semi primitive remote motorized recreation opportunity. Yet if they are designated as Wilderness all motorized recreation will be prohibited.
It seems likely that all of the areas that truly met the criteria of the original Wilderness Act have already been designated as Wilderness. The remaining non-wilderness areas were not designated previously because they did not meet the criteria, such as untouched by the hand of man.
OHV recreation is on the rise and will continue to do so in the coming years. More OHV access is needed, not less.
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