Comment on FR Doc # 2026-13281

I tried to read the proposal but realized it was just a bunch of word goo meant to sound legitimate. It is NEVER legitimate to reduce, limit, control or completely eliminate public comment on anything that we…the public…own. These are our forests! Our lands! They belong to us and mostly to the indigenous who came before white people. We should be able to comment loud and clear on every single issue involving our land and the USFS should be transparent to allow us to see and know everything they plan to do in our land. Too time consuming? Too much to keep track of? Then HIRE more people instead of FIRING them. Put people to work. Do your jobs and do right by the public on our public land. I say NO changes to manuals and handbooks unless they are good changes and involve public comment on every rule. Just in case you go dark and try to make changes anyway, here would be my comments: 1. Hire more rangers to uphold the rules already in place. GIVE People jobs instead of taking them away. 2. Get livestock OFF and OUT of our forests. Let welfare ranchers raise their meat on their own property. 3. Support the Roadless Rule instead of trying to do away with it. 4. Update fire suppression and logging so that they fall in line with current SCIENCE. 5. Support the ESA and protect habitat instead of trying to sell it off to the highest bidder. I live in Alaska so I admit that that most of my time is spent in National Parks, State Parks and State Forests. Our state does a good job IMO running our state parks and lands. I long to visit the Tongass and I will if it survives this administration. The Chugach is like a second home when I go south from Willow where I live. Do I think I should have a say in how the USFS is managed? Absolutely.