Dear Editor:
Remember the law of unintended consequences by applying it to the Forest Service road closures. Depriving the taxpayers of liberty to access publicly held land via motorized transport, our government is assuring that drug cartels have an inviting place to manufacture meth where no one can legally travel. Illegal immigrants tending grow operations are much more likely source of litter than locals not caring about the environment and they revel in roadless areas. Closing roads may potentially make it easier for artifact thieves to perpetrate their crimes sans discovery. Deranged people may be encouraged to hide evidence of horrific actions in roadless areas in an attempt to stall justice and they might succeed. Escapees and other fugitives from the law will logically be drawn to road-less areas for obvious reasons. Muslims will be enticed to roadless areas to build mosques from which to launch terrorists attacks against civilians, or just as likely to manufacture WMDs. International poaching rings also support roadless areas. Outlaws could feasibly establish fortified hideouts, a modern day outlaw trail complete with robbersÂ’ roosts, if you will, that may cost some law-enforcement types ether life or limb to clean them out.
By mandating roadless areas, our not-so-benevolent nanny is enticing foreign governments, most of which have never even heard of the environment, much less care about it, to exploit their resources pell-mell with out the regard for environmental sensibilities that we take for granted here in the good old U.S. of A. Insect infestations and other blights, easily contained if discovered early will go unnoticed in road-less areas devastating trees that scrub carbon out the air on which life depends. These are just a few of the potential tragedies the Forest Service may inflict on communities with their awful unlawful roadless rules.
D. Aaron Faulkner
Cortez
Via e-mail
