A friend and I were talking one time and he told me about Bush's plans
to open up and develop the last wild roadless acres in the northern
rockies, most of which are the headwaters for the best trout streams
in the nation.

A few of these areas are the Quigg peak Stoney mountain roadless
complex that feed into Rock Creek (yes, the famous Montana rock
creek). The other areas are the West Bog Hole roadless area (no
explanation needed). Other areas are the west and east pioneers, and
areas all across Montana.

With 400,000 miles of roads already in the national forests, why is
the Bush adminsitration intent on building new ones and destroying our
best hunting and fishing areas? For example, the Bridger Teton
national forest in wyoming has 1 million acres of protected
wilderness. It is 3 million acres overall, and has 30,000 miles of
roads!

The access to all national forests is excellent, thousands of miles of
road in every national forest. So an "access" excuse just is not the
correct reasoning. I guess it all comes down to industry influence in
the administration.

I noticed Trout Unlimited is putting up a good fight for these last
roadless areas.


I recently had the pleasure of fishing in Montana. I enjoyed fishing
the very rivers that flowed out of these unprotected roadless areas. I
was using the new Winston Boron fly rod, doing strictly fly fishing
and I have to say I was not only impressed with the rod, but with the
scenery as well. All the fish I caught were wild fish.

In how many states can you say that?


" all the fish I caught were wild fish".

I also saw a grizzly bear mother and two Cubs,as well as mountain
hgots, bighorn sheep,a wolf, moose, elk, golden eagles, and huge
spawning rare bull trout.


I don't understand why getting rid of these roadless areas that keep
the ebst fishing intact in the lower 48 is happening. I guess Bush
posptoned the comment period until after the election (from what I
hear it's been postponed about 10 times), and there is a plan to
develop half of these wildlands in the next two years. A shame.

God bless fly fishing, god bless the great outdoors of the America,
especially our great wild fisheries.