Mission 07 · Mark Twain National Forest · MO · 2026
Blooming Rose
The U.S. Forest Service is taking objections to a decision it has already drafted here. Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri.
Record openthe agency stopped taking comments September 14 · what you find still counts
Places to check
1
People it would take
6
Said they’ll go
0
Photographs filed
0
Opened
September 4
Window closed
September 14
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.
Mark Twain National ForestRoads
“These roads or parts of these roads are currently not suitable for passenger vehicles due to being overgrown or having resource damage and are impassible.”
The agency wrote that in its own document, under Forest Service System Road Decommissioning. Nobody has been out to check it.
Drive or walk to Forest Roads 1761 and 1792A in the Blooming Rose area and photograph the stretches marked for closing, showing whether they are grown over and blocked or still open and driveable. A photo of open, cleared, drivable tread with fresh tire tracks would undercut the claim that these roads are overgrown and impassable.
Everything else the document says about the ground.
9 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.
“This pond has since silted in greatly reducing its holding capacity thus compromising the delivery piping buried underground.”
Under Pond Maintenance or Construction in Grazing AllotmentWhere: the pond located outside the fenced grazing allotment that previously supplied the trough
“Many existing waterholes in the Blooming Rose project have filled in with sediment, and/or are becoming clogged with vegetation.”
Under Pond Maintenance for WildlifeWhere: existing waterholes/ponds scattered across the Blooming Rose project area
“some of the dams are not working properly and trees are growing on the dam faces themselves, which can result in future dam failure”
Under Pond Maintenance for WildlifeWhere: the wildlife ponds/dams in the Blooming Rose project area
“Fifty-nine mature stands, approximately 796 acres, would be designated old growth in Management Prescriptions 2.1 and 6.3.”
Under Old Growth DesignationWhere: the 59 mature stands designated old growth within Management Prescriptions 2.1 and 6.3
“These targeted stands represent dense populations of cedar; however, cedar is scattered throughout the project and may be cut anywhere within the project area.”
Under Cedar RemovalWhere: the 34 stands (approximately 263 acres) identified for cedar removal
“The Pocket Eddy Rx Burn Unit is approximately 337 acres (comprised primarily of open grassland) and the Trout Rx Burn Unit is approximately 826 acres”
Under Proposed Prescribed Burn Treatment UnitsWhere: the Pocket Eddy Rx Burn Unit on the west side and the Trout Rx Burn Unit on the east side of the project area
“A total of approximately 8.97 miles of perimeter control line will be utilized during the treatment of the two burn units in the Blooming Rose Project Area.”
Under Fire Control Line to be UtilizedWhere: the perimeter of the Pocket Eddy and Trout prescribed burn units
“The No Action alternative would retain 70% of National Forest System lands within the project area in older (> 70 years) age classes.”
Under Consideration of No Action (Alternative 1)Where: National Forest System lands within the Blooming Rose project area
“There are approximately 12 miles of non-system roads that would be decommissioned to protect forest resources and reduce illegal road use.”
Under Non-System Road DecommissioningWhere: non-system roads scattered throughout the Blooming Rose project area
The window shut September 14. Evidence still counts: it backs the objections from people who did comment, goes to the lawyers, and outlives the decision.