By Kevin Proescholdt
With a long-standing drought throughout the American West, exacerbated by climate change, some wilderness managers have come under pressure to try to prevent future wildfires in Wilderness from burning, or from burning so hotly. That pressure pushes wilderness managers to consider “presuppression” activities—like tree cutting—in Wilderness, in the mistaken belief that such actions prevent or diminish wildfire and its effects.
Those pressures seem to have reached the Bureau of Land Management (BLM) in its recent new management plan for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument in southwestern Oregon, which contains the Soda Mountain Wilderness. And that is why Wilderness Watch filed a formal Protest with the BLM over the language in that new plan allowing so-called presuppression tree cutting in the Soda Mountain Wilderness in violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act.
The Soda Mountain Wilderness, which covers 24,707 acres and was designated by Congress in 2009, is an ecological mosaic where Oregon’s eastern desert meets towering fir forests. The Wilderness is home to a spectacular variety of rare species of plants and animals, including Roosevelt elk, cougars, black bears, golden and bald eagles, goshawks, and falcons. The Wilderness lies entirely within the boundaries of the 114,000-acre Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, which President Clinton established in 2000 and President Obama expanded in 2017.
The new management plan’s overly-permissive language in question states:
• Limit vegetation management actions in Wilderness Areas to only occur for the purposes of removing non-native vegetation or to reduce wildfire risk to life, property, or wilderness character.
This language goes far beyond what the 1964 Wilderness Act permits. Our Protest seeks to change this language to authorize only activities that the Wilderness Act allows. The specific points of our Protest include:
1. Cutting and thinning for vegetation management are not allowed within the Soda Mountain Wilderness, especially with chainsaws and other motorized equipment. The language envisions allowing vegetation management activities within the Soda Mountain Wilderness “for the purposes of removing non-native vegetation or to reduce wildfire risk to life, property, or wilderness character.” This would most likely be done with chainsaws and other motorized equipment. Such authorizations would violate the Wilderness Act.
2. Language in BLM’s policy guidance cannot override the statutory language of the Wilderness Act. The language that we are protesting mirrors language from the BLM’s Manual:
Fuel treatment is not allowed in wilderness, except in rare circumstances. Due to the controversial nature of fuel treatments and the complexities of analyzing the effects of these on the totality of wilderness character, when they are to be used as a replacement for wildland fire they may require analysis through an EIS. Fuel treatments may be permitted:
A. To remove non-native vegetation (see also section 1.6.C.15); or
B. When prescribed fire without pretreatment in the wilderness will inevitably cause unacceptable risks to life, property, or wilderness character (including cultural resources, as outlined in 1.6.C.5.f); or
C. When any wildland fire will inevitably cause unacceptable risks to life, property, or wilderness character.
BLM Manual 6340(1.6)(C)(7)(d), emphases added
This policy language is far more permissive than the statutory language from the Wilderness Act. There is no language in the Wilderness Act authorizing a suspension of the Act’s protections to deal with “non-native vegetation,” for example. Nor is there any language in the Wilderness Act authorizing “pretreatment in the wilderness.” This overly-permissive agency policy language cannot override or supersede the statutory language of the Wilderness Act.
3. Section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act—a special provision for the control of fire, insects, and disease—does NOT permit pre-suppression landscape manipulations. This section of the Wilderness Act states:
In addition, such measures may be taken as may be necessary in the control of fire, insects, and diseases, subject to such conditions as the Secretary deems desirable.
The special provision on fire, insects, and disease at § 4(d)(1) cannot be applied so broadly that it renders the statute, its terms, and its overarching mandate meaningless. Accordingly, the fire, insects, and disease special provision requires some actual need, such as responding to an existing fire, and some finality so that fire control does not become an ongoing, landscape-scale ecological manipulation project that completely overrides the purpose and goals of the Wilderness Act.
4. The Soda Mountain Wilderness statutory designation does NOT include any special provision for presuppression activities. Congress recognized the differences between suppression of actively burning fires (as authorized by section 4[d][1] of the Wilderness Act), and presuppression activities that actively manipulate landscape conditions in an attempt to ward off potential future fires. In a couple of instances in California, Congress has specifically allowed presuppression activities in individual Wildernesses. Congress did NOT do so for the Soda Mountain Wilderness.
From a wilderness perspective, it is far better to allow natural, lightning-caused fire to play its role in Wilderness, rather than to invade Wilderness to cut down “undesirable” trees and attempt to create conditions based on human wishes and desires, rather than what nature is creating.
The BLM has recently ruled against our Protest. The language we have protested could set a troubling precedent for the entire National Wilderness Preservation System, and we hope to eventually succeed with our Protest to both protect the wilderness character of the Soda Mountain Wilderness and avoid that precedent. We and our allies are considering our options.
Click here to read Wilderness Watch’s full Protest.
Photo: Soda Mountain Wilderness by Kyle Sullivan/BLM
Kevin Proescholdt is Wilderness Watch’s conservation director.
391 Comments
The Wilderness Act must be strictly followed. This foundational law clearly prohibits the use of mechanized equipment—including power tools—and forbids vegetation removal intended for fire prevention in designated wilderness areas. The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) has a legal and moral obligation to honor the intent and integrity of the Wilderness Act, which was established to preserve the natural character of these lands for present and future generations.
Unfortunately, BLM has once again demonstrated its inability—or unwillingness—to uphold what is best for these uniquely protected public lands. Wilderness areas are designated for their untrammeled, pristine nature, where natural processes are allowed to occur without human interference. These lands are not just scenic landscapes; they are vital ecosystems, cultural touchstones, and places of solitude and reflection. BLM’s recent actions suggest it has lost sight of the very purpose of wilderness preservation.
Therefore, we strongly urge the BLM to refrain from including any authorizations for fire pre-suppression activities within the boundaries of the Soda Mountain Wilderness in the Final Environmental Impact Statement (EIS), Record of Decision (ROD), and Resource Management Plan (RMP) for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Introducing such activities would violate the Wilderness Act and compromise the ecological integrity of this irreplaceable landscape.
As a concerned citizen, I echo the growing public sentiment: just stay out! We instead advocate for the adoption of the language in Alternative D, which clearly states: “Prohibit all vegetation management activities in Wilderness Areas” (Volume 2, E-3). This is the only path consistent with federal law, conservation ethics, and the long-term protection of America’s most treasured wild lands.
It’s well past time to learn to live in harmony with the planet we inhabit. This is a good place to follow the law and begin that practice. Thank You.
Please leave nature alone! Fires are caused by habitat destruction and careless people.
Healthy, intact forests prevent soil erosion and flash floods!
Trees are a critical line of defense against pollution, flooding, and carbon dioxide. Do not cut them down!
Because of this incontrovertible truth – “Language in the BLM policy guidance is far more permissive than the statutory language from the Wilderness Act. There is no language in the Wilderness Act authorizing a suspension of the Act’s protections to deal with “non-native vegetation,” for example. Nor is there any language in the Wilderness Act authorizing “pretreatment in the wilderness.” This overly-permissive agency policy language cannot override or supersede the statutory language of the Wilderness Act.” – the BLM needs to be STOPPED immediately from any forward action.
Many things at play here. One is certainly to follow the law. Wilderness has specific definitions. Adding vague requirements or negating these definitions is against the laws.
Another thing is that when ancient trees are removed, the wilderness suffers, the people suffer and the world suffers. Those trees will be forever lost.
Also important is that people (and corporations) know little about Wild lands. As we designate them protected we learn more about them. The forests have been managing themselves for as long as there have been forests. Their main problems now hinge on change and destruction caused by Man–even if only for recreation.
Knowing Wilderness is finite and will never return must be in the forefront of our thinking and actions.
The Soda Mountain Wilderness statutory designation does NOT include any special provision for pre-suppression activities. Thus, no individual exemption has been made for SMW and that type of activity is not permitted nor appropriate.
No cutting trees, please.
The BLM must follow the rule of law (Wilderness Act), and cease to manipulate its decree and purpose through vaguely worded “management plans.” Wildfire is a very complex issue that requires thoughtful, interdisciplinary dialog and sustainable solutions that remain within the confines of existing laws, requiring management plans to use very specific language. It matters to everything living; now, and for generations to come.
we must act to maintain biodiversity, the unnecessary removal of one tree impacts 1000’s+ microorganisms, insects, birds, mammals & more life that depends on that ecosystem & surrounding biosphere for survival…
The Bureau of Land Management’s mission is supposed to be to sustain the health, diversity, and productivity of public lands not destroy it.
Here are a few lines from the beginning of The Light Eaters by Zoe Schlange that speak well for the Wilderness
I am in the Hoh Rain Forest in the Pacific Northwest, and everywhere is a sense of secrets. And for good reason. For everything that science does know about what, biologically, is going on here, there is so much more that it cannot explain. All around me are complex adaptive systems. Each creature is folded into layers of interrelationship with surrounding creatures that cascade from the largest to the smallest scale. The plants with the soil, the soil with the microbes, the microbes with the plants, the plants with the fungi, the fungi with the soil. The plants with the animals that gaze on them and pollinate them. The plants with each other. The whole beautiful mess defies categorization. …Understanding plants will unlock a new horizon of understanding for humans: that we share our planet with and owe our lives to a form of life cunning in its own right, at once alien and familiar….I am lost in their world, taken into it. Then again, we’ve all been lost in it a long time, unaware of its true machinations. This seems imprudent. I wanted to know, so I went out and looked.
If the Trump admin. is looking for places to cut, Cut the BLM. I have not seen anything positive about any of the plans they have had for the lands or animals that need those lands. Not farm animals.
Leave Wilderness as is. It’s only for humans as real wilderness. Human interference cuts into it being wilderness.
These plans certainly cry for some other motives than tree care and fire worries.
There are few pristine places remaining in the US, keep the wilderess wild. Allow the plants and animals to live in peaceful harmony.
It never fails to amaze me how the BLM and other land management agencies conveniently ignore the Wilderness Act provisions when they propose certain land use actions. Either the BLM is staffed by incompetent employees or is being directed to take actions they should know are not in accordance with the law. This is a successful lawsuit waiting to happen. What a waste of government money!
Protect Soda Mountain and follow the Wilderness Act, for goodness sake! End logging of old-growth trees and all trees in Wilderness Areas protected by law. Protect our forests, wildlife, and plants, living in an interconnected web of life. What you do to nature, you do to yourself. Rather than dominion over, we are bound by stewardship over. Think!!! Thank you for reading this.
Hello,
PLEASE do not cut the trees!
All of creation is intimately connected. We must protect our forests because they protect us and all the creatures of our planet.
Congress considered the Soda Mountain Wilderness and deliberately chose to exclude it from the California exception. BLM should not circumvent Congress to execute their own presuppression plan.
It is imperative that we put an end to logging of old growth trees and slow down on newer trees to prevent the loss of our forests, wildlife and plants.
Leave nature alone! BLM needs to adhere to the Wilderness Act and leave this ecosystem alone.
The Soda Mountain Wilderness statutory designation does NOT include any special provision for presuppression activities.
This mandate must be followed and do not interfere with nature.
Wildlife will be harmed if you destroy their homes and the environment in general will be very negatively affected.
From a wilderness perspective, it is far better to allow natural, lightning-caused fire to play its role in Wilderness, rather than to invade Wilderness to cut down “undesirable” trees and attempt to create conditions based on human wishes and desires, rather than what nature is creating.
No to Logging for any purpose in the Soda Mountains Area: Forever Wild Means exactly that, Not Roads Cut for BS Reasons !
Follow the rule of law and do not cut trees in the Soda Mountain forest.
I want to comment on the proposed management plan for the Soda Mountain Wilderness. I am a frequent visitor to the Ashland, OR, area, and have hiked the Soda Mountains Wilderness several times. Generally I feel the management plan is overly permissive of human management of the area. Specificaly, I would say that:
Cutting and thinning for vegetation management are not allowed in wilderness areas unless specified by the designating legislation.
Language in BLM’s policy guidance cannot override the statutory language of the Wilderness Act.
Fuel treatment in designated wilderness is only allowed in limited circumstances, such as when wildland fire will inevitably cause unacceptable risks to life, property, or wilderness character.
Section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act—a special provision for the control of fire, insects, and disease—does NOT permit pre-suppression landscape manipulations. The Soda Mountain Wilderness statutory designation does NOT include any provision for presuppression activities.
Thanks for the opportunity to provide these comments, and I appreciate your efforts to maintain the wilderness qualities of the Soda Mountain Wilderness.
Patrick Carr
1704 Virginia Way
Arcata CA 95521
We need the trees. Keep wilderness wild.
I agree with this comment. Leave our remaining forests in their natural state. Mother Nature knows best. Let her be.
Designated wilderness comprises the only places on Earth where humans are NOT ALLOWED to try to control nature. Adhere to the Wilderness Act! Let the natural world continue to have a place of its own.
As a very concerned constituent, I am alarmed of the plans to destroy such important areas to our ecosystem. Destruction of protected areas would be devastating to not only the area, but also to wildlife, the environment, our future, and contribute to climate change. We must act responsibly in order to protect our future and the future of our children. Please, I urge you to make the right decision to continue to protect these important areas. Thank you for your consideration
I respectfully ask that you be environmentally conscious.
Follow the rule of law and do not cut trees in the Soda Mountain forest.
The agenda of this pathetic and laughable administration seems to be aimed at usurping our natural resources for their own greed. We live on this planet too, and we would like to see nature continue, and to see all of the living beings continue to thrive and not cease to exist. We have to live alongside nature, not destroy it. Very greedy you are.
I urge the BLM to stop its overreaching plan to thin the forests to supposedly stop wildfires. Let lightning do its job as that is nature’s way to keep forests healthy. When humans overreact instead of letting nature take its course, it never ends well for the ecosystem.
So EXACTLY what part of the Wilderness Act is not understood? Violating the Act, taking a chainsaw to those provisions (and apparently the forest too) meant to protect the wilderness area, is simply NOT acceptable.
I too urge the BLM to not include any authorizations for fire presuppression activities in the Soda Mountain Wilderness in the Final EIS and ROD/RMP for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. Instead, I too suggest that the BLM use the
language for Alternative D: “Prohibit all vegetation management activities in Wilderness Areas” (Volume 2, E-3) and do a better job in following not just the letter of the law, but the spirit in which the Wilderness Act was written.
I mean, come on now – do better!!
WILDERNESS is WILDERNESS. Do your job to protect it – before it’s too late…
Follow the rule of law which supports a healthy forest.
Leave the trees alone!!
I’M GREW UP IN NEW ENGLAND. THIS COUNTRY IS OVERDUE FOR ANOTHER TEA PARTY !
Our forests must be preserved because they are scrubbing CO2 from our atmosphere.
We need all those trees intact for our survival!!!
EVERYTHING trump touches dies. Please don’t be a part of the crude, cruel, dismantling of all that’s good about our nation, which includes our forests. Thank you for considering…
No vegetation management in the Soda Mountains. Wildlife needs things to stay wild. Leave the trees alone.
Please do everything you can to preserve the wild places of the Earth. Ecosystems need to be left intact for our species to continue here sustainably. Capitalism is trying to dictate that everything should be exploited for profit, but humanity is more intelligent than that.
Keep Wilderness WILD_ Destroying old growth forests is idiotic. This administration needs to be stopped at all costs. Their greed will ruin the Earth and wilderness areas. Decisions should be based on science and well thought out management, NOT insane decisions of an incompetent administration.
BLM is not a court. How is
The BLM has recently ruled against our Protest – a thing?
Leave the trees in public spaces.
Wilderness is just what the name implies. These lands were placed outside of any human interference, particularly logging, for a reason. They are to be protected, period. Get a clue.
Cutting mature fire-resistant trees in wilderness areas will not reduce wildfire risk, but only increase it, as such trees are resistant to smaller fires and provide shade to the understory, keeping it cooler and helping to retain moisture. Additionally, such large trees store orders of magnitude more carbon than younger, smaller trees, thus helping to limit or reduce heat trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
To the BLM:
The Wilderness mandate is, “Leave No Trace”.
Leave the wilderness alone.
DO NOT cut mature trees in this or any wilderness area. Cutting trees and any kind of human manipulation of trees,vegetations, and waterways is NOT allowed under the Wilderness Act. What humans and agencies may do under the Act is spelled out and very restricted. Preemptively cutting mature trees as a prevention of fires is ridiculous. Mature trees are by nature more fire resisitant. The fuel of fires is dry underbrush. But that has no influence upon the law. Wilderness areas were designated as wilderness area in order to protect them from any and all human intereventions! Stay out of our designated wilderness areas. DO NOT EVEN THINK OF CUTTING DOWN TREES!
At a time when our planet is warming, it is vital to save our forests for carbon sequestration to help slow climate change. The proposed plan to control wildfires, invasive species and the like may sound good to the BLM, but these actions will do more harm than good with the use of the necessary heavy equipment to take these actions. It’s the invasion and encroachment of the human population in wilderness that need addressing.
I strongly oppose the proposed tree cutting in the Soda Mountains.
Cutting mature fire resistant trees in wilderness areas will not reduce wildfire risk, but only increase it, as such trees are resistant to smaller fires and provide shade to the understory, keeping it cooler and helping to retain moisture. Additionally, such large trees store orders of magnitude more carbon than younger, smaller trees, thus helping to limit or reduce heat trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
Protect these wild places!!
The Wilderness Act has been instrumental in saving rare, essential wildlife habitat both for wildlife and for humans to visit–and leave no mark! Designated wilderness areas should be preserved AS IS, and not burned or cut down to “save them.” This is absurd and not science-based, and very destructive, for the present and for the future of our wild lands. BLM has an unfortunate history of protecting farmers and ranchers over wild lands. Kindly reverse course and leave wild lands as they are. Thank you.
Leave the Soda Mountain Wilderness alone. No tree clear cutting.
Dear Bureau of Land Management,
The Soda Mountain Wilderness is home to a spectacular variety of both plant and animal species – few such places are left. The Wilderness Act was put in place precisely for that purpose, to ensure the preservation of natural ecosystems for the benefit of all; keep wild places wild, for generations to come. The vast majority of wildfires are human caused, so if you truly want to prevent more of them to happen, that is where you should start, and not with the forest, it is the victim here.
Thanks!
It just amazes me why we have to manage everything, every nook and cranny. If we were all gone tomorrow nature would manage everything just fine.
Please do not remove more trees from our forests!
The absurdity of the BLM’s plans are beyond stupid. I have watched this “organization’s” ill thought out Musk and Trump goals to smash and destroy all the protections designed to HELP our planet survive the oncoming climatic storm only to benefit themselves. This is NOT NORMAL or SANE BY EVEN THE LONGEST STRETCH of imagination. This must stop here and now, period.
The current administration places greed in the form of increased logging above preservation of our children’s future. Turn your anger into peaceful political action.
Dear BLM,
Whereas we all appreciate the work you do to keep our public lands, wilderness means just that: WILD. Not clear cutting, fire management, land management! Or other oxymorons. Please leave wilderness areas wild, regardless of how much it is against the rules of the BLM. Thank you.
Why do human beings keep insisting that they can do it better than Nature? Not only are the methods you are proposing a blunt force object, they are as likely to cause damage by messing up the system. Our world IS NOT One Big Experiment for you to play with… We have to live here, for God’s Sake. Follow the damn science, and the laws that were put in place for A REASON.
I strongly oppose BLM’s proposed tree cutting in the Soda Mtns Wilderness Area. Honor the Wilderness Act of 1964.
Wilderness is just that. It means no screwing around with what nature has in store, be it fire, windstorms and the like. It is unconscionable to designate something wildness then go in and mess with it.
Wilderness Act—a special provision for the control of fire, insects, and disease—does NOT permit pre-suppression landscape manipulations.
Yes! it is unfortunately a combination of ignorance and greed that the American Wildernesses are under threat but we need to bring awareness to the general public & fight like hell for all life on this earth the only home we have.
During the previous Trump “administration” and now again that the convicted felon is somehow back in charge, the BLM stood more for Bureau of Land Mangling. Forests are doing their part in the battle against climate change, and anyone wanting to cut them down is a clueless tool of the profits over people faction, without a thought for what the future of this country will hold for its children. It is a disgusting display of what oligarchy can do, and “banana republic” doesn’t even begin to describe it.
Obey the laws. Protect our wilderness. Logging and other destructive actions do not belong in the wilderness. Protect native plants and trees and our water.
Trees are living things. Trees are environmental history. Trees offer vast amounts of health to human & animal species. Trees are homes for small animals & birds. Trees offer shade on a hot day. Tree nuts offer food. Trees stop landslides. Trees are sacred & must be protected. Mature trees are cultural jewels.
Governments have all the excuses to cut down forests. Officials have no right to give the green light to cut down forests ‘willy-nilly’. Profitable agricultural, mining, logging & other businesses are given rights to cut down trees as well. The only reason trees are cut down is for profit.
Good people everywhere that respect mature trees, who respect the forests, who realize that the spirit of nature resides in the forests must fight to stop deforestation. Respecting the environment is imperative, we must stand up, speak up & take action. Because, otherwise, the only beauty left in the world will be what the persecutors have overlooked. Profit must never be priority.
If you look at a tree and only see board feet worth X number of $$, then your heart is made of stone and you are nothing but a greedy capitalist. For you, I would wish the veil to be stripped from your eyes and allow you to understand, a forrest is a sacred place with intrinsic value that no amount of money can replace. We can’t afford to lose any more oxygen producing friends. Leave the trees where they are!!
Tell Trump to cancel the tariffs on lumber from Canada instead of destroying our native trees.
STOP!!! Public lands belong the the public! Stop making up false reasons to destroy them. Follow the law!!
Do not cut down trees in our National Forests. We need them; animals need them. The Wilderness Act must be followed. No power tools, no fire prevention vegetation removal. Wilderness, as its name suggests, should remain wild; NO tree cutting.
Sir/Mam,
I have worked on a hotshot fire crew in Lake Tahoe, CA for the USFS and as a National Park Ranger in Yosemite. I am opposed to the proposed logging
Leave the trees & forest alone please
The thing is that some humans think they are above nature , this is impossible and can never be. Nature has it’s own rules and we should respect that !
I too strongly oppose BLM’s proposed tree cutting in the Soda Mountain Wilderness.
Wilderness areas are for wildlife and for people to enjoy the wilderness. Guess what? If you cut down the trees there is no wilderness. These areas are protected. Nature is a tapestry and we’ve already cut too many threads now. Just leave it alone. Keep the lumber companies out.
🌲BLM~ for the greater good: Honor the Wilderness Act of 1964 and follow the letter of the law! 🌳 Humanities very best allies in carbon capture are found in our precious, long treasured, old growth forests.🌲 Such magnificent trees preform amazing work here, in their natural state, simply standing, just as they are, in the United States of America.🌳 The Earth’s gift. 🌲 Necessarily, protecting these grand champions is the easiest, most selfish, and healthiest thing we can do to perpetuate a habitable world too! 🌳 It is time to stop interfering with forrest’s monumental contributions to our planetary home’s overall well being! 🪵 Every felled tree represents multiple decades~ a century or more even, of incalculably, valuable, silent service. 🌲 Avoidably, we can stop this assault against the environment and the dreadful mere moments it takes to render such horrific loss~ with the awful, crashing, thud to the ground ending their imperative duty. 🌳 This is our ourcry to defend them and ourselves!🌲 It is a grave mistake to go on this way, knowing all we do. 🌳 Trees are sentinels of mourning, or a celebration of life~ by our choice!🌲 Make the correct one now and swiftly prevail in averting climate catastrophe’s worst impacts. 🌳 We rely upon tree’s wondrously epic, verdant acts. 🌲 Ensure they remain firmly rooted~ able to save us in spite of our thoughtlessly, greedy, never enough, misguided ways! 🌳
We need our wild places preserved not pillaged. That was never a proper way and it’s even more improper now!
Do not open protected wilderness areas to logging.
Stop messing with Mother Nature. She is not pleased with the actions of the greedy, the profiteering, the industrialists corporations disregard nor for their shared responsibility in stabilizing and sustaining nature’s ecosystems for healthy life giving environments. Consumers be aware and thoughtful of what you are buying into that profit$ the continuing cycle$ of the polluting abuser$. We the people are entering a time of personal sacrifice to ponder, to educate ourselves, think about and reevaluate our “wants” vs “needs.” This world is what Mother Nature (or your God) has provided, has bestowed upon us to nurture for the healthy future all life. “Waste not, want not.”
Please pay attention to the Wilderness Act of 1964. Don’t cut down trees in the Soda Mountain Wilderness. You will disrupt nature and the habitat for many species. You will disrupt our climate as well. Thanks!
The Wilderness Act is a legal act of Congress and very clearly designates land to NOT be violated by machinery or any pretenses of land management, especially for profit. The very consideration of “management” for any purpose explicitly violates the Wilderness Act. Stop acting like this move is for anything except big business to profit.
JUST STOP!!
Let me guess. This is another one of Elon’s ideas. What do either Trump or Musk know about wilderness? I sincerely doubt neither one of them has been to a national forest or wilderness area unless it was to see if there was any oil underneath the soil that they could profit from. With lack of wilderness, we have decimated wildlife species and severely damaged ecological areas.
Now, more than ever we need to protect every natural and wilderness area. We need to aggressively push back on any effort to harvest or develop these areas. The earth is counting on us. Thank you.
Why do we have to deal with this barrage of bad Trump ideas and lies!! Further violations of the park’s lumber will lead to more fires, not less. We need all the land and wilderness we can protect. We do not have enough of either, but we sure have enough robber barons who want to grab with both greedy hands at our nation’s expense, probably while humming the national anthem
Stop cutting down trees for crying out loud!
As usual this indicates no consideration for the natural environment. Nature should be left alone. Human interference is harmful, deadly and ugly. How may animals will be displaced or die? Do not cut down the trees.
Wildernesses are one of our biggest assets as a country. The laws that created them are also our assets. Respect for the law should be the main tenet of being a “conservative”.
We must protect the forests in order to protect all it’s creatures and the environment. Forests also help to protect humans. Stop this madness!
Forest management should be about saving our forests, not cutting them down. Please save our trees.
I don’t believe cutting underbrush prevents fires. There is lots of food and shelter in the underbrush. I agree to let nature take care of itself.
Federally designated Wilderness Areas were created to protect native ecosystems and ecosystem properties. Many native trees and flora in the Cascade-Siskiyou region are adapted to fire and depend on fire to reproduce. Logging within Cascade-Siskiyou Wilderness to “protect” the ecosystem from fire is thus illogical and will do far more harm than good. Wilderness belongs to all Americans, and it’s hard to see this proposal as anything more than a special interest giveaway.
grow the hell Washington!! u all set on ur a#@!$# for 2 long 24/7!!!!! live in the real world!!!! stop cutting down trees that help everyone live in harmony!! all u all want 2 do is constantly destroy what u all r 2 lazy 2 comprehend!!!! we need 2 the trees and the animals!!!! they r all part of the environment that we all live in including u all!!!!! take a chance 2 understand the environment and how the trees and the animals help people and vice versa!!!! learn some education that u all apparently sorely have been missed out on when u all was in school, etc.!!!! cause if u did learn things u wouldn’t b in such a rush 2 hurt and kill the environment and animals for sport and 2 show off that u all r big shots with alot of money instead of living in the real world!!!! once the animals and the trees r gone what’s left 2 live off of?? nothing!!!! if u destroy u must replace 2 help keep the balance of life!!!!
Your proposal violates both the spirit and the letter of the Wilderness Act. Please rethink your plan.
The Wilderness Act should prevent this cutting. This administration cannot simply ignore laws it doesn’t agree with.
The Wilderness Act was instated for the purpose of preserving forests and wild places for future generations. This includes no power tools and no fire prevention vegetation removal. The BLM must not defy the Wilderness Act.
Protect, not harvest or destroy this land.
Instead of Cutting down trees and thinning our forests people in Washington need to get outdoors and start enjoying Nature.
Everything is about corporate greed … the bottom line has become God. Logging this area is all about the money.
lt has already been proven that trees provide a vital role in protection against climate change, which is reason enough to reject logging in this area. In addition to that I strongly support preservation and conservation to support a natural ecological system for the benefit of all, for the good of the planet and for future generations.
RePUBIClansmen/woMEN are the soure of what is WRONG with AMERICA. There has been nothing they have done or even thought about to preserve American wilderness as it was in the 1600’s! The white man has destroyed more than ALL of the past residents of this country!! It is past time to rid this country of 1%ers and corporations that fill the need to DESTROY the air, land, and waters, rather than building towards a future of coummunity with fauna, flora, and people!!! There is NO ONE “worse” than tRUMPty DUMBty and Elonia Musk(RAT) in the reversal of saving: air, fauna,flora, the land, and waters, in and around this country!!!!!
The BLM is constantly doing things to disrupt and destroy our forests, wildlands, waters, ecosystems, biodiversity, evironment, etc. They are surely in the palms of the logging/timber industry lobbyists. Their decisions always favor private industry and profits for some entity. We need to change this soon!
The Soda Mountain Wilderness, which covers 24,707 acres, is an ecological mosaic where Oregon’s eastern desert meets towering fir forests. It is is home to a spectacular variety of rare species of plants and animals, including Roosevelt elk, cougars, black bears, golden and bald eagles, goshawks, and falcons.
I am against the cutting and thinning trees in the Soda Mountain Wilderness. Please do not cut down any trees.
The Wilderness Act must be followed. No power tools, no fire prevention vegetation removal. BLM must adhere to the Wilderness Act for the benefit of our country and future generations.
Dear Forest Service,
Leave Soda Mountain alone, please.
Please leave the forest and the trees standing for this and all future generations.
I am completely opposed to the BLM’s proposed presuppression tree cutting in the Soda Mountain Wilderness. This is a violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act. Leave this wilderness alone. Do not cut trees.
Many people have said it better than I and I wholeheartedly agree with them! Leave the forest for the animal’s! Haven’t we destroyed more habitat than we ever should have? Aren’t wild animal’s having to rely on the junk food in our garbage cans because we’re removing too much their habitat? Stop the insanity! Protect our forests and wild animal’s! Thank you.
Stop this nonsensical, misguided madness! Leave nature alone!
Stop pretending these rules don’t apply and follow them!
Planting more trees and cutting down fewer trees is a better idea.
Please do not cut down trees!
This would not only violate the Wilderness Act but would be detrimental to the planet!
Trees and healthy forests are needed for our planet to survive!
Cutting down trees leads to landslides, mudslides, erosion, as well as less oxygen! Why in the world would you cut down trees for no reason?? Exactly what makes a tree “undesirable”????
It’s one thing to clear out dead trees and undergrowth to mitigate the risk of forest fires. But cutting down healthy living trees only adds to our ecological problems!
Human-beings have already done immense destruction to this planet! Please uphold the principles of 1964 Wilderness Act. We need the trees for our sustenance. Do not cut the trees for monetary gains!
The preservation & conservation of our forests is essential for the sustainability of our biosphere. Trees have innumerable benefits for humanity & living things much greater than their value as lumber, and so do their inhabitants. Deforestation is 1 of the primary causes of ecosystem disintegration, climate chaos, the increase in massive wildfires, and mass extinction. We must go the opposite way — reforestation & afforestation — in order to curtail & reverse these devastating trends.
BLM must follow the regulations of the 1964 Wilderness Act, and cannot be governed by open-ended statements that would be open to allowing large equipment, etc…into these wild areas.
We MUST protect all of our remaining forest, and create new ones to create a sustainable world for ourselves, our children, and generations to come!!!!
Our Wilderness, our Forest was not placed here for anyone to destroy for money, our Ocean’s need our Forest, our Forest needs our Oceans, this is an eco system, if you keep clear cutting our beautiful forest you are helping to destroy the delicate Eco system, and every living thing that lives there and destroying the health of all people, our Forest and Wilderness are a life line, these tree’s help to keep carbon from our atmosphere and give us oxygen. You have no right to destroy any of this.. Oceans depend on forests because they play a vital role in regulating the global carbon cycle, absorbing carbon dioxide (CO2) that would otherwise be absorbed by the oceans, thus mitigating ocean acidification and protecting marine life. Healthy forests have the ability to absorb CO2 from the atmosphere — what is often referred to as a “carbon sink.” Thus, deforestation is another major contributor to atmospheric CO2. When forests are cut down, we not only lose important repositories that breathe in and sequester atmospheric carbon. If timber is burned or even left to rot, carbon once stored in the felled trees is also released. A significant amount of carbon is stored below ground in the soil and roots as well, and this too can be released following the disturbance of deforestation.
That’s a HUGE NO….stay out of our designated wilderness areas.. They are for the use of CITIZENS…..NOT FOR LOGGING OR ANY INDUSTRY USAGE.
Leave the Earth alone. Respect the 1964 Wilderness Act.
LEAVE YOUR GREEDY MAGAT PAWS OFF OUR WILDERNESS.
The Trump administration cannot to act with impunity as a dictator would and lie about serving the mandate of the people. He is giving away public lands as a free giveaway to corporate loggers and making false statements that the clear cutting of our national forests will be protect us from wildfires which is the EXACT OPPOSITE of what will happen! This corporate sake/ giveaway of our public lands and congressional approved agencies is absolutely atrocious and needs to be stopped in the courts immediately!
This attempt to cut down trees and burn in the Soda Mountain Wilderness is clearly illegal and in direct contravention of the Wilderness Act. If this is still a nation that abides by the rule of law, then this must be stopped.
Plans to protect air and water, wilderness and wildlife are in fact plans to protect man. – Stewart Udall
Nature = the essence of existence. MJS 10/12/18
As usual this indicates no consideration for the natural environment.
Nature should be left alone. Human interference is harmful, deadly and ugly. How many animals will be displaced or die? Do not cut down the trees.
Enough with the cutting down of one of the most important things that will not only allow us to stay on this planet longer but provide for our BREATHING!
This action by BLM is totally unacceptable and not necessary in the wilderness. Leave nature alone!
I realize many of you don’t believe in science but I learned in school that we need trees so we have clean oxygen to breathe.
Ignorance is not bliss, eventually what goes around comes back around. The consequences of deforestation will be felt by all. Do not move ahead with deforestation. There is more value than commercial value in forests.
No further destruction of nature!!!
The problem is humans , not trees. Decades ago we were warned this planet cannot support this many people. Becasue humans will continue to want their places near the trees, or develpoers will cut trees to move them closer.The earth is getting hotter,proven by fact.
Whatever you want to cll or not call that, trees moderate temperature along with holding moisture and allowing peaseful places to go. So resist those who want growth growth , like the idiots who build too close tothe coasts and then we all pay for those damages. Unless humans begin to understand and realize we are not going to be able to keep altering nature, we will end up having to relocate to MARS. And harvesting trees is unnecessary because bamboo can be grown faster and works as well.
Do not allow this change to practices in the Soda Mountain Wilderness. The only activities allowed should be the ones that the 1964 Wilderness Act allows.
Keep human destruction out of the Wilderness!
This isn’t to save forests, per se. It’s to enrich corporations, to the detriment of our forests. It hasn’t contained fires in the past, yet the government keeps doing it. Insanity, as they say, is doing the same thing over and over again and expecting different results. It’s also doing the same thing over and over again because you don’t care what it does to the environment, wildlife or people.
Once old-growth trees and forests are gone, they’re gone forever along with the wildlife they support.
Do not sacrifice natural landscapes for the greedy corporate robber barons who are only looking for short-term financial gains. The wilderness belongs to all of us, not avarice corporations or senseless “management” plans.
Mature trees are essential carbon sinks. Forests with dead, standing trees are essential for many birds and small mammals. Burning by Native Americans was for their own purposes, and was not essential for forest health. There is no reason to cut trees but to satisfy the greed of the timber industry. It is a disservice to nature and humans.
Our forests are not a “fire hazard”, they are the solution to climate change. The problem is not too many trees or the wrong kind of trees, it’s human’s encroachment. Wildfire losses can be prevented by building smarter (“hardened”) for less cost, and with zero disruption of the forest ecosystem.
It’s not nice to fool with Mother Nature….BLM should allow natural, lightning-caused fire to play its role in Wilderness, rather than to invade Wilderness to cut down “undesirable” trees and attempt to create conditions based on human wishes and desires, rather than what nature is creating.
Anyone wanting to destroy the forests and other places in the wilderness for resources and profits, like Donald Trump for example, is pure evil!
In fact, Trump is an Eco-Villain just like the ones from Captain Planet and the Planeteers. Except he’s worse than all the other Eco-Villains combined because, of course, unlike them, he’s real.
When people interfere with Nature, it often results in destruction of habitat. Do not destroy forests to manage the growth of trees.
This is in violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act, so BLM should not be able to move forward with this.
Stop cutting down the trees!
PROTECT Mother Nature and ALL Her children…DONT TOUCH PUBLIC LANDS!!!
no logging in wilderness
ALL LIVES MATTER
BLM: Keep your hands off of nature & wildlife
Grow hemp and save the trees! Trees take decades to grow but hemp can be grown year round and provide 2 or 3 harvests a year. It’s stronger than wood and provides better insulation when made into hempcrete to build houses. Hemp has 50K uses from toilet paper to clothing.
Leave the trees alone!
Please do not destroy these beautiful trees. They are crucial to the ecology and once they are destroyed they can never be resurrected.
If cutting and thinning vegetation in the Soda Mountains is not allowed, why is this even an issue? Do not cut!
I am completely opposed to the BLM’s proposed presuppression tree cutting in the Soda Mountain Wilderness. This is a violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act. Leave this wilderness alone. Do not cut trees.
Do not cut in a wilderness area. Restore if possible.
This is in violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act, so BLM should not be able to move forward with this. Please respect and honor the provisions of the 1964 Wilderness Act with regard to the Soda Mountain tract of land, forest, and water.
We should be allowing natural, lightning-caused fire to play its role in Wilderness, rather than to invade Wilderness to cut down “undesirable” trees and attempt to create conditions based on human wishes and desires, rather than what nature is creating. Such authorizations as these would violate the Wilderness Act. We must act to stop this from happening!
Your plan is in violation of the Wilderness Act.
The wilderness act is to protect the people’s land not provide more trees for the corporations to make a profit from now and future. Native Americans know how to prevent fires so practice what they do.
This lab would be DISASTROUS to our beautiful, NECESSARY wilderness!! DO NOT CUT DOWN THE TREES, or put any of the other stupid, damaging plans in action!!! Humans so often think they can solve a problem in nature, but they ALWAYS make it worse. Leave the wilderness alone and let God and nature solve everything perfectly. Everything WE do screws everything up for nature and wildlife — when will we learn? Please stop being so ignorant and do the right thing!!!
The wilderness act is to protect the people’s land not provide more trees for the corporations to make a profit from now and future. Native Americans know how to prevent fires so practice what they do.
Well something needs to be done! Did everyone not hear about the Southern California fires in January? How much wildlife do you suppose was killed/lost thier homes in all of that?
Trees are the linchpin to our environment (absorbing CO2, buffering wind, preventing soil erosion, providing the last of the wild/natural places). Deforestation is suicide.
Trees clean the air, provide a home to many animals, & stop mud slides, why wouldn’t we respect that and want that? Without trees all life will die. Nature is perfect, stupid humans ruin it and threatened all of our lives. I say protect nature and put the greedy & selfish humans in an assisted living home where they can’t kill life any more.
The proposed plan to cut down trees in the Soda Mountain Wilderness is ludicrous and wrong-headed. Managing a wilderness should not include cutting it down in case of a fire – but taking other, considered, intelligent measures (which you should know about if you’re part of the BLM!) would be the right approach. Please do your job – protecting the wilderness, which is invaluable and vital to our survival on this planet. This wilderness has been set aside by Congress for protection – don’t “manage” it out of existence!
Cutting down trees not only decimates the natural carbon-capturing ability of the forest, but dries out the remaining forest floor. This drying out deprives the remaining trees in the area of a natural cooling for their root systems, further weakening the trees ability to withstand disease. Wildlife of all sizes and species are harmed by deprivation of natural terrain for food and shelter.
Protect the wilderness, without cutting trees within our National Forrests or Parks.
Please leave the trees in our amazing forests! Nature can manage fine without man’s interference! The rules of the Wilderness Act must be strictly followed! Thank you kindly!!
How is it that the BLM continues to be misinformed as to its own responsibilities?
“Management” is not equal to removal and destruction.
The BLM is meant to be a steward, a caring agency, an enricher of lands and wilderness.
The BLM needs a new, compassionate, more respectful model than the current idol it seems to be bowing down to: Shiva the Destroyer.
I strongly oppose the new plan allowing presuppression tree cutting in the Soda Mountain Wilderness in violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act.
This would destroy the wilderness and wildlife. The true value of Wilderness must be preserved. Mature trees must grow and be allowed to produce mast crops for wildlife, provide habitat, conserve soil, filter water, allow recreation and serve as a repository for the future. Cutting trees in Wilderness areas is definitely not acceptable!
The cutting down of the trees is illegal and immoral. You all know that inherently – particularly if you have children. So do the right thing.
There was a reason Aldo Leopold created the first Wilderness area in 1924, because nature needs protection from us. This has only become more aparent in the last 10 years where we have lost 33% of our birds in the US and are on track to lose many more. Wilderness areas help to maintain what little diversity of species we have left. The concept of replanting trees after logging, as the BLM does, does not create an ecosystem but a garden of trees without the communication or the number of animals that should be living there. Do not allow BLM to rule against the Wilderness Act. This would also open up the door and put all the other wilderness areas at risk.
BLM has prostituted itself in service to ranchers and animal agriculture.. BLM is responsible for the destruction of many wilderness areas in support of ranchers. I hope they keep their dirty hands and greedy intentions away from the Soda Mountain Wilderness. This Wilderness lies entirely within the boundaries of the 114,000-acre Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
Wilderness does not require logging management. Tree cutting should be kept to managed forests.
Follow the Wilderness Act. Do not cut down the trees.
Follow the LAW! The Wilderness Act of 1964 must be followed. Pre-suppression landscape manipulations are not permitted under the law. No power tools, no fire prevention vegetation removal.
We need more trees in the world — NOT LESS! Please do the right thing.
I am horrified by the ignoring what the law requires and proposing illegal activity under your vegetation management plan–remove it immediately!
In 2023 I hiked the Pacific Crest Trail through the Soda Mountain Wilderness. It is outrageous that the BLM is proposing to log in the wilderness. Federal agencies like the BLM _must_ follow the law, in this case the 1964 Wilderness Act. BLM must not cut down trees in Soda Mountain Wilderness, and must not use motorized tools within the wilderness.
The BLM’s language in this proposal sets a troubling precedent for the entire National Wilderness Preservation System, and unnecessarily endangers the Soda Wilderness ecosystem. The BLM needs to adhere to the protest outlined by Wilderness Watch.
So, Donny, whatever happened to WE The People? Leave our forests alone!
We are related – when we kill Mother Nature and the animals & environment, we kill ourselves! We need much more respect, honor and protection for all of God’s creations!
Please put some people to their sences. Without trees; this day and age with the exhaust of motors/engines; we’d be worse than China. Now think of any animal and shelter. Look at how the atmosphere at the poles has deteriorated. Humans are tearing Earth appart.
All for 1 reason: MONEY. Yes; MONEY rules this planet. Now think of kids with asthma.
The Soda Mountain Wilderness is an ecological mosaic where Oregon’s eastern desert meets towering fir forests. The Wilderness is home to a spectacular variety of rare species of plants and animals, including Roosevelt elk, cougars, black bears, golden and bald eagles, goshawks, and falcons. The Wilderness lies entirely within the boundaries of the 114,000-acre Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. The language in the new management plan goes far beyond what the 1964 Wilderness Act permits. It should authorize only activities that the Wilderness Act allows.
This administration is an abomination to all that is good and not very mindful of the future and those who will be here to live in it. Their only concern is to use up as much of earth’s bounty as possible, and all to enrich the wealth of those already bloated. Those same people would not begin to understand why these forests were set aside. So, as long as this ignorance remains in political power, we will continue to need to come to the rescue of that which was created for all God’s creatures.
“The United States at this moment occupies a lamentable position as being perhaps the chief offender among civilized nations in permitting the destruction and pollution of nature. Our whole modern civilization is at fault in the matter. But we in America are probably most at fault … We treasure pictures and sculpture. We regard Attic temples and Roman triumphal arches and Gothic cathedrals as of priceless value.
“But we are, as a whole, still in that low state of civilization where we do not understand that it is also vandalism wantonly to destroy or permit the destruction of what is beautiful in nature, whether it be a cliff, a forest, or a species of mammal or bird. Here in the United States we turn our rivers and streams into sewers and dumping-grounds, we pollute the air, we destroy forests and exterminate fishes, birds and mammals, not to speak of vulgarizing charming landscapes with hideous advertisements.”
– Theodore Roosevelt
I would ask that the 1964 Wilderness Act be adhered to. Wilderness needs to be just that for the planet, for the people and for the future.
Stop cutting down forests. The Soda Mountain Wilderness, which covers 24,707 acres and was designated by Congress in 2009, is an ecological mosaic where Oregon’s eastern desert meets towering fir forests. The Wilderness is home to a spectacular variety of rare species of plants and animals, including Roosevelt elk, cougars, black bears, golden and bald eagles, goshawks, and falcons.
Leave something to our next generations.
I do not approve of cutting down the trees. The world has lost enough to leave us with problems we cannot fix. Trees are an important part of our planet. I am tired of my tax money going where I do not approve.
I totally agree with Lynne K. Stop removing a large source of carbon sequestration.
Section 4(d)(1) of the Wilderness Act—a special provision for the control of fire, insects, and disease—does NOT permit pre-suppression landscape manipulations. This section of the Wilderness Act states:
In addition, such measures may be taken as may be necessary in the control of fire, insects, and diseases, subject to such conditions as the Secretary deems desirable.
As an Ex-USFS firefighter, I am compelled to comment on your proposed tree cutting in the Soda Mountain WILDERNESS.
Cutting and thinning for vegetation management are not allowed within the Soda Mountain Wilderness, especially with chainsaws and other motorized equipment.
Language in BLM’s policy guidance cannot override the statutory language of the Wilderness Act. The language that we are protesting mirrors language from the BLM’s Manual:
Fuel treatment is not allowed in wilderness, except in rare circumstances.
The special provision on fire, insects, and disease at § 4(d)(1) cannot be applied so broadly that it renders the statute, its terms, and its overarching mandate meaningless. Accordingly, the fire, insects, and disease special provision requires some actual need, such as responding to an existing fire, and some finality so that fire control does not become an ongoing, landscape-scale ecological manipulation project that completely overrides the purpose and goals of the Wilderness Act.
The Soda Mountain Wilderness statutory designation does NOT include any special provision for presuppression activities.
Human interference in Nature’s affairs has never been successful so why do we keep trying to do so. DO NOT CUT DOWN THE TREES.
This is supposed to be a WILDERNESS, not a commercial site! The rich have way too much influence on what happens to THE PEOPLE’S LAND and this should not be allowed!
This is in violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act, so BLM should not be able to move forward with this.
Do not cut the forest for corporate greed and stupidity of our current president. Future generations need it.
It is time to start planting more trees and cutting down fewer trees to keep this planet viable!
DO NOT CUT DOWN OUR TREES!
The presuppresion plan to cut trees in the Soda Mountain Wilderness violates both the letter and the spirit of the 1964 Wilderness Act.
The option of cutting should be considered as a last-ditch resort only after every other means of fire prevention / suppression have been considered and explored. Conservation above all other considerations.
The overly-permissive agency policy language cannot override or supersede the statutory language of the Wilderness Act. Please stop.
Do not allow this change to practices in the Soda Mountain Wilderness. The only activities allowed should be the ones that the 1964 Wilderness Act allows.
Keep human destruction out of the Wilderness!
Stop the attack on the wilderness and wildlife. Wildlife are on the brink and need the wilderness to survive. Wildlife are only 4% of the animals on the planet. Please save the wilderness and wildlife. Let the wilderness take care of itself. It knows how to take care of itself. Humans need to stay out of the way. Deforestation is leading cause of climate change. More trees need to grow to save the planet. Grow trees specifically for lumber and leave the wilderness alone.
Please do not cut down the trees.
LEAVE TREES ALONE! ONCE THEY’RE GONE THEY’RE GONE FOREVER!
Leave nature alone,
Don’t cut
Some forest should be left wild, letting nature take its course in managing the land.
We need to stop cutting down trees!!! full stop. Period. Trees trap carbon, they produce oxygen and recycle carbon dioxide, they offer shade from the sun, they offer respite from the heat, and they are shelter for countless species of animals. In other words, trees are amazing living organisms that help many animals and plants to live in harmony. STOP CUTTING TREES! PRESERVE THE TREES AND THE OLD GROWTH FORESTS!
LEAVE THE TREES ALONE! We desperately need to SAVE them, as so much is plowed under, cleared, cut down for paving or building over, no effort to save — and they need serious PROTECTING rather than destroying!
Wilderness designation means that management of such should be left to nature. Leave wilderness alone!
I have seen the controlled burn approach used by Native Americans to reduce the incidences of forest fire in the Mariposa Sequoia grove in Yosemite National Park. If it works there, why not try it in the Soda Mountain Wilderness?
Destroying natural habitat has long term negative effects that can’t be overcome no matter what you think you can do to replace it. It’s a lack of knowledge on the part of the industrial complex that continues to diminish connected ecosystems believing what they think they understand is enough to justify the damage they create. It’s a sad truth that there will continue to be such ignorance until there are no pristine forests of reasonable size left.
DO NOT CUT DOWN THE TREES!
We need the trees cutting them down will halt the progress in our environment. This world was created with trees & they are needed to protect our nature’s balance and is important to the survival of the planet and species.
Wilderness designation means that management of such should be left to nature.
It is vital to maintain the undisturbed nature of wilderness to maintain a healthy diversity of species. BLM leadership should be well aware of this Wilderness Act requirement.
Please revise your approach to pre-suppression and apply this to non-wilderness areas.
Thank you!
Forests must be protected and preserved for the good og the planet today and for the future. Do not cut down the trees.
Cutting down trees adds to the hazards of wild fire. We need trees to store water and reduce global warming. do not allow the trees to be cut!
Please leave our wilderness areas wild. They are treasures we cannot afford to lose. It is up to us to protect them. Keep the chainsaws away!
STOP CUTTING DOWN TREES
I am totally opposed to presuppression tree cutting in the Soda Mountain Wilderness. This is a violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act.
Do not cut down the trees in this pristine wilderness!
Thank you for not interfering with Nature, protection yes, all the wildlife needs to be cared for and helped. Reducing human involvement needs to be the goal.
I am urging the BLM to not include any authorizations for fire
presuppression activities in the Soda Mountain Wilderness in the Final EIS and ROD/RMPnnfor the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. I instead suggest that the BLM use the language for Alternative D: “Prohibit all vegetation management activities in Wilderness
Areas” (Volume 2, E-3)
Shameful! Cutting down trees is a disgrace!
From a wilderness perspective, it is far better to allow natural, lightning-caused fire to play its role in Wilderness, rather than to invade Wilderness to cut down “undesirable” trees and attempt to create conditions based on human wishes and desires, rather than what nature is creating.
Do not cut the trees!
DO NOT CUT THE TREES DOWN
The trees need to be saved. Do not cut the trees
Do not cut down more trees!! More than enough nature destruction has already occurred. We need to preserve and protect what’s remaining and rebuild what’s lost. Humanity is in deep trouble if we don’t.
It’s time to stop and reflect on all of nature that we’ve already destroyed, and pledge to restore, not continue to erase the most important gifts future generations have a right to enjoy.
Hear ye, hear ye! Please stop cutting down trees in the forests, as well as anywhere! Trees are the Earth’s lungs and cleanse our air. We love our trees where animals reside in them, we are protected from the Sun’s burning rays, and so much more. Remember, the jingle of the day is Save our Trees, Save our Trees! Repeat as often as desired, ultimately resulting in a mantra.
Destruction of anything in the natural environment is never the right thing to do. Stop cutting down trees!
Stick to the provisions permitted by the 1964 Wilderness Act. Do not go beyond the provisions of this act.
PLEASE do not cut down the trees! Please protect the environment especially for the animals that live there!
Please NO CUTTING OF TREES or anything else in our Wilderness areas!
Wilderness means free of human interference so please follow the laws & let it be Wilderness as it was legally labeled as by the people of the USA!
Thank you,
The BLM’s outright disrespect for our wilderness and the ecosystems therein is egregious at best!! Wild areas should remain UNTOUCHED and intact for many science based reasons, and for the species that reside there
STOP DESTROYING WILDERNESS AND THE WILDLIFE !
Do not go any further than what is allowed under The Wilderness Act. You will cause irreversible damage to habitats.
DO NOT DESTROY THIS UNREPLACEABLE FOREST
Please respect and honor the provisions of the 1964 Wilderness Act with regard to the Soda Mountain tract of land, forest, and water.
Does greed have any limits? Are we addicted to killing – doesn’t matter what we’re killing– people, animals, trees and flora.
America seems to be nothing but the eradication of life, from the Caucasian colonists to now.
No tree cutting. We need trees to make oxygen. Stop the commercialization of our parks & trees.
As you must be aware, cutting and thinning for vegetation management are not allowed within the Soda Mountain Wilderness, especially with chainsaws and other motorized equipment; and language in BLM’s policy guidance cannot override the statutory language of the Wilderness Act. I strongly urge the BLM to not include any authorizations for fire presuppression activities in the Soda Mountain Wilderness in the Final EIS and ROD/RMP for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument.
We need these trees more, and for a much longer time, living, than turned into a product which ends the trees continuous planet helping properties.
We have no true wildernesses in Britain, but we understand and admire the concept.
Please keep your wildernesses wild – we do not need fewer trees, we need many more in this time of climate breakdown.
In addition, the trees and shrubs are the legitimate homes of many species, our brothers and sisters in creation. They struggle to survive in a human-dominated world.
Trees are essential to maintain balance in nature. Cutting them down will only lead to disaster for animals, humans and climate.
we need all the trees we can grow.
Government and corporate (same thing) plans do nothing but exploit, poison and destroy, and always to the harm of the forests, the soil, the air and the water, and all those living things dependent on -what was- perfect nature, prior to human “intervention”.
I know our president doesn’t believe in climate change but if they start cutting trees things are going to get much worse. Plus he doesn’t care what happens to all the wildlife. Everyone she care about our planet and what is done to it.
Cutting down trees is not the answer to climate change. We need to protest regarding the changes being made in the government regarding the environmental protection.
We need those trees to stay where they are to collect carbon, and for future generations to enjoy. We must not invade Wilderness to cut down “undesirable” trees to attempt to create conditions based on human wishes and desires, rather than what nature is creating!
No cutting of trees in Wilderness!
Protect our ecosystem.
leave the trees alone….they take years and years to grow. it does not happen over nite.
Save nature!
Nature knows best!
Human interference always has unintended consequences.
From a wilderness perspective, it is far better to allow natural, lightning-caused fire to play its role in Wilderness, rather than to invade Wilderness to cut down “undesirable” trees and attempt to create conditions based on human wishes and desires, rather than what nature is creating. No to BLM’s anti-wilderness policies.
Do not cut down the trees. The Soda Mountain Wilderness should remain untouched.
Nature takes care of the forest in regards to fire
Stop this insanity!
Please do not allow tree cutting in the Soda Wilderness.
how towrite to soda mt officials to stop this horror. of course there should be zero veg mgt in wilderness.
Animal habitats do not include chainsaws and motorized equipment
Limit vegetation management actions in Wilderness Areas to only occur for the purposes of removing non-native vegetation or to reduce wildfire risk to life,
property, or wilderness character. All vegetation management actions must be consistent with the Wilderness Act and BLM Manual 6340 and must protect CSNM objects and values. Conduct a compatibility review during implementation level NEPA and decision-making processes and provide opportunities for public and Tribal input.
Stop destroying natire
Human interference in Nature’s affairs has never been successful so why do we keep trying to do so. DO NOT CUT DOWN THE TREES.
Let nature take its course!
Human interference in Nature’s affairs such as tree cutting has never been successful, so why do we keep trying to do so. DO NOT CUT DOWN THE TREES AND DAMAGE THIS PRISTINE WILDERNESS.
For the sake of our planet, we are supposed to be living in harmony with nature not destroying it. Please do not cut down trees. They are also a vital habitat for other living beings
Do Not Cut Down These Wonderful and Much Needed Trees!
No cutting trees in Soda Mountain Wilderness!!
It did not work when they tried to reroute rivers and marshes; it only exacerbated the flooding. Evidence and facts show it won’t work for forests either.
Please do not cut down these beautiful trees that are homes to so much of our wildlife and helps to maintain ecosystem. Noise pollution of the heavy equipment destroys balance. Keep out!
Save our forests for posterity!
It would be yet another tragedy that humans inflict more damage to this planet and to our forests. It is wrong to think that cutting down trees would diminish fires. The forests and nature know better than we do. There is another, more sustainable path to follow. We need to listen, observe and preserve our forests, our wildlife, our vast community of living beings great and small, our natural, thriving and living planet. More destruction and disintegration is not the answer.
Please do not cut down our trees, our forests.
I oppose the new plan allowing so-called presuppression tree cutting in the Soda Mountain Wilderness in violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act.
This would destroy the wilderness and wildlife
Humans need the wild places too. Trees take in the carbon and release oxygen. Cut them all down and kiss the planet goodbye! I want a healthy environ.ent for future generations!!!
We should be planting even more trees , establishing shelter belts and protecting our natural resources, while moving away from clear cut logging operations. Every one of you knows better than to do this .
Do NOT cut down trees to prevent wildfires. This is not acceptable.
We do not need to cut our forests down for lumber. Regardless of supply, the mills always adjust production so we never see lower prices anyway and just leave destruction for no purpose.
We have no wildernesses in Britain, but we understand the concept, which is enlightened.
Please leave your wildernesses as pristine as possible, sparing the trees and shrubs, which are vitally important for our fellow species who struggle to survive in a human-dominated world.
Provisions in keeping with The Wilderness Act must be maintained in the Soda Mt Wikderness.
Cutting and thinning the forest in this area is not legal….end of story.
No more cutting!
This plan is not scientifically supported. Our reliance on these forests is. Don’t cut.
Cutting down trees will not prevent wildfires. It will only exacerbate the very issue that is causing more wildfires to occur. Nature’s ecosystem creates a livable world for ALL living things. Man made “solutions” are destroying it. Cutting down the trees will only serve to make things worse. Preserve the trees.
Trees are our true green friends!
I strongly opposed tree thinning in wilderness areas for any reason. The purpose of wilderness is to leave it alone, period.
It is a Mortal sin to recklessly cut down this bit of forest just for a short term financial gain. It will take decades to rectify this destruction, assuming that there is anyone able to start rectifying.
You’ve got to stop tearing down our forests.
You can make a positive difference!
No logging in our parks and national forests.
Protect the environment it belongs to everyone !!
Please do not go into this forest & start cutting trees. Let nature decide its fate, it usually knows best. Humans wreck everything we touch.
Who will be held personally accountable for the next fire that occurs after this timber harvesting?
FIRST DO NO HARM. That should be EVERY person’s pledge in every department of our supposed government. But this pledge is especially important in “managing” forests — a COMPLEX TAPESTRY OF LIFE — which your “plan” shreds and desecrates. Those who do not honor life on our planet have NO RIGHT to make decisions about preserving life. In other words, STOP. DON’T PROCEED with your shred plans for the Soda Mountain Wilderness.
Clear-cutting is not allowed in designated wilderness areas under the Wilderness Act of 1964 because the Act is designed to preserve the land in its natural, untrammeled state. The key reasons for this prohibition include:
1. Preserving Natural Conditions
The Wilderness Act defines wilderness as land that retains its primeval character without permanent human alterations.
Clear-cutting is a highly disruptive activity that fundamentally alters ecosystems, removing entire tree populations and damaging soil integrity.
2. Protecting Biodiversity & Ecosystems
Wilderness areas are meant to provide safe habitats for plants and animals. Clear-cutting destroys wildlife habitats, disrupts food chains, and can lead to species decline or extinction.
3. Preventing Soil Erosion & Water Pollution
Trees and vegetation play a crucial role in maintaining soil stability.
Removing large swaths of trees increases erosion, leading to sedimentation in streams and rivers, which can damage aquatic ecosystems.
4. Maintaining Public Enjoyment & Aesthetic Value
Wilderness areas are protected for their scenic, scientific, educational, and recreational value.
Clear-cutting scars the landscape, reducing its beauty and making it less suitable for activities like hiking, camping, and wildlife observation.
5. Aligning with the Purpose of the Wilderness Act
The Act strictly limits commercial exploitation, and timber harvesting is considered a commercial activity, which is explicitly prohibited in wilderness areas.
The law prioritizes preservation over resource extraction.
The only exceptions to this rule occur in very limited circumstances, such as small-scale tree removal for visitor safety (e.g., hazard tree removal) or to prevent catastrophic wildfires—but these actions must still comply with the Act’s intent to keep the land as wild and untouched as possible.
Cutting down trees and vegetation to avoid possible wild fires is not a good long term solution. Please consider solution that will address the root cause. Thanks.
WHY are WE (human beings) ALWAYS ***DESTROYING*** EVERYTHING. God & Mother Nature have to be so disappointed in us. WE are the WORST “animal” on this earth. SHAME ON US
must we destroy every piece of wilderness follow the law and the wording of the wilderness act
George Muller
Protect our natural resources for future generations, our health and well-being. Thank you.
No tree cutting; PLEASE.
This is irresponsible wilderness management and violates crucial wildlife laws!!! Stop causing more harm and good to Americas precious and vulnerable animals and their habitat.
Don’t cut down the trees in the Soda Mountain Wilderness the language in that new plan allowing so-called presuppression tree cutting in the Soda Mountain Wilderness is in violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act. We need to maintain these trees to reduce greenhouses gasses and preserve the natural balance.
Do we still not realize the necessity of our trees?? Do we still not realize we need them to survive?! Shame on humans for what they have done and are still doing to our environment.
this is nothing more than trump thinking he has power over are resources witch he dose not it’s the people or the states land !
Thank you Mr. Proescholdt taking the time to send us all this information about the wilderness act and make us aware that this is our time to act to help preserve and protect what is our wilderness. BLM it’s been influenced by the sense of greed that is taken over our national government. But we can fight against this! for certain people who have expressed an interest of cutting down our trees, those people see an abundance of raw resources. They don’t realize that they’re there doing their job those trees those for us those animals that live there are all part of the ecosystem that keeps this earth balanced. By cutting it down we are interfering with the breathing of this Earth. There has to be a balance.
Please protect the soda mountain wilderness from logging!
We love the trees – please don’t destroy them. They are so important to the environment
DO NOT cut down the trees. Why do humans always we are smarter than nature.
Leave the trees alone. We need them to create oxygen. Too much has been destroyed.
This forest must stand, I vehemently oppose using National Forest areas anywhere to provide the Trump Administration with vindication for utilizing National Forests as lumber supply to support its tariff wars.
Crucial areas that help combat climate change, which cannot be replaced, MUST remain protected.
Preserve, don’t destroy! DO NOT CUT DOWN THE TREES.
This is a beautiful area. Do not cut down any trees.
Human interference in Nature’s affairs has never been successful so why do we keep trying to do so. DO NOT CUT DOWN THE TREES. We need the trees to filter the pollution out of the air!
No tree cutting in Wilderness – period!
This seems to be an attempt to counter the negative effects of tRump’s tariffs on Canadian lumber, but since we lack the technical/industrial expertise and facilities to process the specialized kinds of lumber that Canada supplies, this move to destroy multiple ecosystems, in addition to being self destructive is pointless and is only dog whistle political theater for the MAGAts.
DON’T CUT THE TREES!!
1) Each individual tree represents the home of a variety of species and lives.
2) It also is a member of a tree network that exchanges nutrients via their roots. Every tree that is cut hurts three or four other trees.
3) Any trace of fuel from chainsaw or other equipment creates a greater risk of fire than the tree itself.
4) This land is protected for good reason. The original statutory wording must be respected.
Therefore: No cutting of trees!
Your plan is in violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act. Save Our Wilderness!
Put some of the wild horses and burros in that wilderness. They will eat down the grasses, fuels, and help mitigate wildfires and predators will cull their numbers. “Wild Horse Fire Brigade” William Simpson has proven that works.
Warum müssen diese Bäume weg? Wir haben doch andere Möglichkeiten. Lasst sie leben!
Nature knows what she is doing. Let her take care of her creation. Human meddling causes all kinds of problems. Just look around you.
We must stop the mass destruction of Nature called Ecocide. Join our movement, Help us get the crime of Ecocide onto the Roman Statue of the ICC and imprison the avarice entities who commit crimes against Nature. Go to Stop Ecocide International.
Cutting mature , fire resistant trees in wilderness areas will not reduce wildfire risk, but only increase it, as such trees are resistant to smaller fires and provide shade to the understory, keeping it cooler and helping to retain moisture. Additionally, such large trees store orders of magnitude more carbon than younger, smaller trees, thus helping to limit or reduce heat trapping greenhouse gases in the atmosphere.
The current push to log in these areas is driven solely by corporate, short term profit motivation and abetted by complicit politicians and ignorance in the general population.
I urge you to be responsible forest stewards, practicing sound management principles. In short, be courageous and do the right thing.
We have a moral responsibility to maintain our vegetation and our wild spaces.
The BLM needs to follow the law and follow the science. Arbitrary and capricious decisions, like this one, will have devastating consequences for people and nature.
Forests and wild places need to remain as is! Do not log these great wilderness areas….they’re home to so many species of animals and plants.
Man made interference in the natural world has always had negative impacts on nature and Man himself. Do not cut down trees in Soda Mountain. It is not needed. Nature is its own best manager.
Trees produce rain. Cut more down, more drought.
Leave nature in charge. Unfortunately, humans have lost their way.
Please protect the Soda Mountain Wilderness with its wilderness values fully respected and in no way diminished. Please do not intrude upon that wilderness with action not consistent with wilderness protections.
Leave these places alone!! Haven’t we destroyed enough? It is time to let nature restore itself not damage it further.
PLEASE DO NOT CUT DOWN THE TREES IN THE NATIONAL AND STATE FORESTS!!! the animals and birds need them and the ground needs them to keep from having mudslides when it rains a lot. We’re begging you, PLEASE leave the forests alone!! We need them for everyone to enjoy them as well as their descendants!
Wilderness areas are meant to be that—wild. Stop unnecessary governmental interference.
Please do not cut down the trees!!! The environment in that area will suffer, animals & people. Trees are beautiful. Thank you.
Save the trees
Save Our Trees And Land
Stop cutting down our trees!! As usual without knowing what you’re doing you just blunder around not seeing what is of true value, often with lumber companies as benefactors of your actions.
STOP DESTROYING OUR PLANET
Keep the wild in wilderness. No logging!
Human interference in Nature’s affairs has never been successful so why do we keep trying to do so. DO NOT CUT DOWN THE TREES.
Please protect the sensitive ecosystem in this national park and do not cut down the trees. Not protecting and shielding the environment from destruction, will have a devastating affect on all of us.
Pre-suppression forest management activities must be done with extreme care which is not demonstrated in this proposal.
Wilderness Areas are protected, by law! made by an act of Congress! No logging goes on in a Wilderness Area..that’s the law.
Fuel treatment is not allowed in wilderness, except in rare circumstances. Due to the controversial nature of fuel treatments!!!
Greed! All about Greed! We are facing the R#@! of America! Big Money is Stealing our country right underneath our feet. Adding to the dirty profits they are raking in, the destruction is PERMANENT. FOR A CHOSEN FEW THIEVES. CUT THEM OUT THEY ARE CROOKS! LEAVE THE TREES ALONE. Better men and women have protected OuR National Heritage.
The Wilderness Act is very clear. Adhere to it, only activities that the Wildness Act allows. Let nature be nature!
Trees are essential in fighting climate change. They turn carbon dioxide into oxygen and stabilize the soil. Do NOT cut trees!
Do not cut down this forest. We rely on these trees to give off the oxygen we need and absorb carbon dioxide. They are also home to a lot of wildlife and they would all die out if we cut them down. Also, it’ll cause too many natural disasters and wildfires, which is why we must deny tree cutting in this forest or we’re in huge heap of trouble.
WE CAN’T LET THE TRUMP WHITE HOUSE DESTROY OUR BEAUTIFUL NATURAL RESOURCES AND WONDERFUL FORESTS. WHERE WILL WE BE WITHOUT THEM? A VAST DESERT? YEAH, GREAT! NOT!
Leave the Wilderness & Forests be as they are, free of Man’s manipulations. Leave the old growth trees from logging, and forests free from any industrial mechanizations. Let the animals be- who call these places home and allow our Wild spaces to be free as they are, so we all may continue to enjoy them, in their everlasting beauty.
Save the trees in Soda Mountain Wilderness !!
DO NOT CUT DOWN THE TREES.
We must not allow the current, rogue administration to violate the Wilderness Act. The current administration and its lawbreaking will be gone soon but the Wilderness Act will live on. We must adhere to the Wilderness Act!
Human interference is not wilderness. Those tactics belong in other areas to fight fire, not wilderness.
These mountains do not need any tree cutting.
Illegal is illegal.
Protect nature’s rich diversity. Don’t cut trees so essential to life and fighting climate heating.
Please let wilderness be wilderness!…especially in areas of the country where sufficient rainfall is still occurring.
This is nothing but another for profit project that only benefits the logging companies. KEEP THE TREES UNTOUCHED AND STANDING!!
This is wilderness! Please do not cut down trees!
No!
Do not waste time and money on a fabricated interfering policy in a natural forest setting and process . Do not cut down the trees
We need to follow established law. It appears to me that the current administration has shown a disregard for the rule of law in many areas in its first few months of being in charge.
Please stop destroying our forests. They belong to all of us and not just a handful of corporations. They should not be used to a profit. Who gives you the right to do that?
It’s true—don’t mess with mother nature!! To do so for the sake of enriching the rich can bring you down. Forgetting the lessons we have learned is stupidity and greed.
Landscape and wildlife changing interference of cutting down trees is another attack on our natural resources.
We need more conservation not continuously cutting down our large forest. You can look throughout history where you have done this and it’s never been good. Oh yes, you get your money and you leave the rest of a stranded take away research such as homes for wildlife places we can’t enjoy because all we have is sidewalks
Our trees, our wildlife, clean air, what can be more important than that!!! Stop these reckless proposals and actions at all costs!
Obviously wildfires are a great concern in many areas. To me, it doesn’t make sense to begin cutting trees in an attempt to avert fires or lessen the results of one. It is not a time to panic, but rather to discuss and find common sense solutions. Nature deserves the most natural solutions.
Please adhere strictly the 1964 Wilderness Act. It’s the law for hard times as well as for easy times.
Cutting down trees is never an option. Removing non-native plants is an option. This is a necessity. But removing native ones is not. Keep the natives. This helps preserve the flora and fauna that resides there.
We need to save our trees, to save our wildlife and help protect our air, for now and future generations
Save the trees. They are literally the lungs of the earth. We must think of tomorrow and not just today.
From a wilderness perspective, it is far better to allow natural, lightning-caused fire to play its role in Wilderness, rather than to invade Wilderness to cut down “undesirable” trees and attempt to create conditions based on human wishes and desires, rather than what nature is creating. Please adhere to the letter and spirit of The Wilderness Act.
Leave mother nature alone. Mankind doesn’t have a very good track record on these issues.
Wilderness means untouched by human intervention. I am unalterably opposed to BLM plans to allow alteration snd cutting of vegetation in the Soda Mountain Wilderness complex.
Please leave the forest alone, we don’t need more development and clearing of trees. Our environment is already damaged and we need trees, wilderness spaces and all creatures that depend on them for survival!!!
I strongly oppose the proposed presuppression tree cutting in the Soda Mountain Wilderness in violation of the 1964 Wilderness Act. The Soda Mountain Wilderness, which covers 24,707 acres and was designated by Congress in 2009, is an ecological mosaic where Oregon’s eastern desert meets towering fir forests. The Wilderness is home to a spectacular variety of rare species of plants and animals, including Roosevelt elk, cougars, black bears, golden and bald eagles, goshawks, and falcons. The Wilderness lies entirely within the boundaries of the 114,000-acre Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument, which President Clinton established in 2000 and President Obama expanded in 2017. From a wilderness perspective, it is far better to allow natural, lightning-caused fire to play its role in Wilderness, rather than to invade Wilderness to cut down “undesirable” trees and attempt to create conditions based on human wishes and desires, rather than what nature is creating.
Please leave the forest alone, we don’t need more development and clearing of trees. Our environment is already damaged and we need trees, wilderness spaces and all creatures that depend on them for survival. Stay away from our national forests!!!!
Do not cut down the trees. They are the lungs of earth that support our breathing.
There’s no reason at this time to cut these trees down.
I am against this proposed action.
We must protect the Soda Mountain wilderness by leaving it to the works of nature!
This is a resource that we cannot replace. We can avoid this. Let’s do what is right for the present and also the future.
As a concerned citizen, we urge the BLM to not include any authorizations for fire presuppression activities in the Soda Mountain Wilderness in the Final EIS and ROD/RMP for the Cascade-Siskiyou National Monument. We instead suggest that the BLM use the
language for Alternative D: “Prohibit all vegetation management activities in Wilderness
Areas” (Volume 2, E-3).
Thank you
The more ingroach on these animals land the more incidents of harm will come to injuries of people and the death of the poor animal that was just doing what God reacted them to do to eat. It’s disgraceful when a animal goes exisnt because man takes away its land where it lived LONG before we were around.
Keep It Wild–Do Not Mess With Evolution!!!
I am against the tree cutting the Soda Mountain Wilderness. Please do not cut down any trees. There is no good reason to! As an American citizen, I oppose this.
Please Save the Animals!!
Wilderness as its name suggests should remain wild. BLM has NO legal right to ignore the Wilderness Act!
Once again BLM has demonstrated their inability to do what is best for these special public lands. Wilderness is so designated for a reason and BLM has lost sight of it. Just stay out!
I agree with Wilderness Watch, and with previous commenter, Frances Raab. DO NOT CUT DOWN THE TREES!
Please only allow trees to be removed for fire risk and non-native renewal. Thank you for your time.
I enjoy wildlife areas throughout the states.
Appreciate your time and consideration.
Keep the forest intact for people to enjoy. Thanks…Steve
It takes a LONG time for trees to grow–DO NOT CUT THEM DOWN–think of your children!!!!
The Wilderness Act must be followed. No power tools, no fire prevention vegetation removal. The BLM must adhere to the Wilderness Act for the benefit of our great country.
I agree with your comment
Please do not allow this to happen in our beautiful national forests. Wildlife deserves their quiet place to call home.
Trees are our line of defense against pollution, flooding, carbon dioxide. They are vital as habitat.
STOP THE LOGGING
Leave nature natural
stop the extermination of our vital forests
Cutting and thinning trees in Soda Mountain is not allowed for vegetation growth. Desist.
Human interference in Nature’s affairs has never been successful so why do we keep trying to do so. DO NOT CUT DOWN THE TREES.