Now that the comment period for the proposed rescission of the Roadless Rule is open (for a minimal three weeks), I’m going to ask readers to do something very uncharacteristic for a semi-retired research ecologist and hardcore angler from Montana—forget all the good points that my friend Chris Hunt made in his recent article on the rule and why anglers should care about it.

The Bureau of Land Management has a huge job, and it has never been an easy one. Even with its billion-dollar budget, overseeing about 245 million acres—which represents about one-eighth of all U.S. land and roughly 25 percent more than the Forest Service, the next largest federal land manager—is no picnic.