The U.S. Forest Service has a decision open here and is taking comments on it. Bitterroot National Forest, Idaho.
The agency files it as “Sheep Creek Rare Earth Exploration Proposal”
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 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 Sheep Creek in the West Fork district and shoot the water itself: how full the creek is running, the springs and seeps feeding in from the sides, and animal tracks in the mud at the edge. Date every photo.
1 more sentence, in the agency’s own words, with where each one sits in the document. Any of them is fair game for a photograph.
“OPEN: Forest Service Roads 75 -- 711 open as of 9/15/26 -- FSR 720 Remains closed”
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.
More Than Just Parks doesn’t direct where you go or what you do. Terms.