Do you live in Utah, Wyoming, Idaho, Montana, Arkansas, Pennsylvania, West Virginia, Louisiana, Mississippi, Alaska, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington, Hawaii, Maine, Nevada, Colorado, California, or Arizona?

Do you care about roadless areas?

Please call your Senator today.

Senator Mike Lee has offered an amendment to the Wildfire Prevention Act (S.140) that would nullify the 2001 Roadless Rule. The Senate Energy & Natural Resources Committee votes tomorrow, Wednesday.

Never mind that S.140 itself is less a wildfire bill than a logging bill, pushing timber sales and mechanical thinning on federal lands under the cover of "hazardous fuels reduction." Lee's amendment just drops the cover entirely.

The science is clear: roadless areas burn less severely than logged, roaded lands. When fire moves through them, it's doing exactly what it should. It's a natural, necessary process in some of the most remote public lands we have, as far from human communities as any public land gets. Repealing the Roadless Rule won't protect a single home. It will just open these places up to the full extractive industry playbook.

Call the U.S. Capitol Switchboard at (202) 224-3121 and ask to be transferred to your Senator's office. Tell them to vote no on any amendment that nullifies the 2001 Roadless Rule, and while you're at it, vote no on S.140 itself.