PENNSYLVANIA — For more than two decades, our national forests have been governed by the Roadless Rule and its full repeal carries significant consequences for American taxpayers. A closer read of USFS’ own analysis of the proposed rule’s impacts reveals that full repeal would increase taxpayer costs and liabilities through increased road subsidies, revenue losses from timber sales, and increased wildfire risks. While the USFS stated the goals to reduce regulatory burden, increase resource production, and increase local management flexibility to allow for active management where necessary in response to increasing wildfire risk, a full repeal may have the opposite impact. …Targeted improvements to the Roadless Rule make sense. Blindly instituting full repeal would expose taxpayers to billions in subsidized road construction and maintenance, exacerbate taxpayer losses from money-losing timber sales, potentially increase wildfire risks, and weaken the health of roadless areas that provide important commercial and recreational benefits.