Making her voice heard about road closures

Letter to the Editor:

So, the USFS seeks comments on road closures.

I would like to go on record as saying, "I have commented on how I feel about road closures, decommissioning roads, obliterating old pathways."

I find gates, berms, and ditches, even unfriendly to legal non-motorized users.

Why is it with each new forest project my original comments appear not to count?

Tell ya' what, if I have a change of mind based on real true factual information, that after 30 years of protection for the grizzly's, closures have made a difference, I will let the USFS know in writing I've changed my mind.

With regards to the mine and the need to regulate traffic or have more closures because of added traffic to an open road, I see it as another ruse to limit access.

As we drift away from use of our natural resources and allow timber to waste and build ever increasing fuel loads in our forest and try to build a healthy tourist town community, I can't help but wonder, who will be happy if we become limited to how many trips we all are allowed over even open roads.

We do not need roadless (in old roaded areas) treated as wilderness and creeping ever closer to our private lands.

Why do I still feel threatened and locked out - (as I have commented before).

Will you be one of the lucky ones that have a key to study something?

Linda Stehlik

Yaak