Mission 25 · Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest · WI · 2026
Chequamegon-Nicolet aspen fir
The U.S. Forest Service is taking objections to a decision it has already drafted here. Chequamegon-Nicolet National Forest, Wisconsin.
The agency files it as “West Zone Aspen Fir Regeneration”
Record openthe agency stopped taking comments September 28 · what you find still counts
Places to check
3
People it would take
15
Said they’ll go
0
Photographs filed
0
Opened
September 7
Window closed
September 28
Evidence
Nothing filed yet.
No photograph has been filed on this mission yet. The first one lands here with its fingerprint, where its location came from, and how far inside the agency’s own boundary it was taken. The places to check are below.
The objective
3 places to check.
Chequamegon-Nicolet National ForestRoads
“One treatment stand is within 0.12 mile of the river, but is across a major road, Forest Road (FR) 144”
The agency wrote that in its own document, under Recreation Use Areas and Water Bodies. Nobody has been out to check it.
Drive Forest Road 144 where it runs along the South Fork of the Flambeau River on the Medford-Park Falls district. Photograph the road and the strip of woods between it and the river. A photo from the road showing whether it truly runs between the cutting area and the river, and how wide and solid that road is.
The agency has published no document here with a sentence a photograph could settle, only a notice. The line below is read from that notice.
Walk into the aspen and balsam fir stands on the west zone of the Chequamegon and photograph the woods as they stand now: trunk size with a pack or boot for scale, standing dead snags, and how much sky shows through the canopy.
The agency has published no document here with a sentence a photograph could settle, only a notice. The line below is read from that notice.
Walk into the older aspen and balsam fir stands on the Nicolet side and photograph what is standing now: trunk size with a pack or boot for scale, dead standing trees, and the canopy overhead looking straight up.
Everything else the document says about the ground.
5 more sentences, in the agency’s own words, with where each one sits in the document. Any of them is fair game for a photograph.
“Currently, 91 percent of balsam fir stands in the project area are older than the standard rotation age of 45 years”
Under Purpose and Need: Why Do We Need to Act?Where: balsam fir stands across the project area, Great Divide, Medford-Park Falls, and Washburn Ranger Districts
“the West Fork of the Chippewa River in the GDRD (a 0.22-mile reach overlaps the project area)”
Under Recreation Use Areas and Water BodiesWhere: West Fork of the Chippewa River, Great Divide Ranger District
“the Mondeaux River in the MPF (a 0.24-mile reach overlaps the project area)”
Under Recreation Use Areas and Water BodiesWhere: Mondeaux River, Medford-Park Falls Ranger District
“portions of their corridors occur in High SIO areas”
Under Recreation Use Areas and Water BodiesWhere: Ice Age National Scenic Trail and Chippewa Loop, Medford-Park Falls Ranger District
“Clusters of homes and cabins are located throughout the project area, including near Shady Knoll Road (FR 144), White Bass Lake Road, and Black Lake Road”
Under Private LandsWhere: Shady Knoll Road (FR 144), White Bass Lake Road, and Black Lake Road, Medford-Park Falls Ranger District
The window shut September 28. Evidence still counts: it backs the objections from people who did comment, goes to the lawyers, and outlives the decision.