Mission 28 · Monongahela National Forest · WV · 2026
Monongahela road permit
The U.S. Forest Service has a decision open here and is taking comments on it. Monongahela National Forest, West Virginia.
The agency files it as “Issuance of a Special Use Permit for Forest Roads 223 and 249”
Record openthe agency stopped taking comments September 21 · what you find still counts
Places to check
1
People it would take
6
Said they’ll go
0
Photographs filed
0
Opened
September 11
Window closed
September 21
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
What we are testing.
Monongahela National ForestRoads
“would run parallel to either the South Fork Cherry or North Fork Cherry Rivers (candy darter critical habitat) for approximately half of their routes (often within 100' feet of the rivers).”
The agency wrote that in its own document, under Alternatives Considered but Not Analyzed in Detail. Nobody has been out to check it.
Walk Forest Road 223 where it runs along Bear Run and photograph how close the road bed actually sits to the water, including any place where bare road drains straight toward the stream. Photos showing the road surface and Bear Run in the same frame, close enough to judge the distance between them.
The window shut September 21. Evidence still counts: it backs the objections from people who did comment, goes to the lawyers, and outlives the decision.