Open for comment · closes December 8
Little Missouri National Grassland motor vehicle routes face permanent restriction
U.S. Forest Service · Little Missouri National Grassland, Dakota Prairie Grasslands
- What
- The Forest Service will decide which roads on the Little Missouri National Grassland remain open to motor vehicles.
- Where
- Little Missouri National Grassland, Dakota Prairie Grasslands, MO, ND
- How much
- Public motor vehicle access to roads on the Little Missouri National Grassland is at risk.
- By when
- Comments to U.S. Forest Service by December 8, 2026.Date from Forest Service CARA comment page ↗, read November 9, 2026.
What to ask forAll 3 points →
The Environmental Assessment should fully analyze how each road designation decision will affect public recreational access across the Little Missouri National Grassland.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the Forest Service project page ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the project page names, as PLAN read them.
- How muchThe first sentence of our What’s at risk read of the notice; the whole read is under Case.
- By whenDecember 8, 2026, from Forest Service CARA comment page, the notice text ↗: “requested through 12/8/2026 11:59:59 PM (Central Standard Time)”. Read November 9, 2026.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
Two ways to be heard on this, and both count. Comment for the legal record, then call the members who answer to you.
Comment now3 holes in the agency’s own analysis
Make these points, in your own words
- The Environmental Assessment should fully analyze how each road designation decision will affect public recreational access across the Little Missouri National Grassland.
- Designating which National Forest System Roads are open to motor vehicles will permanently shape how the public can use the Little Missouri National Grassland, so the Forest Service must consider all reasonable alternatives.
- The Dakota Prairie Grasslands must ensure the Environmental Assessment examines cumulative impacts on the grassland ecosystem before finalizing any motor vehicle use designations.
Say something only you can say. The law requires the agency to consider and respond to substantive comments, and specifics are what make a comment substantive.
Affects public lands
The Forest Service will decide which roads on the Little Missouri National Grassland remain open to motor vehicles.
What’s at risk
If this goes through
Our plain-English read of the official notice ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words below.
In the agency’s own words
The Dakota Prairie Grasslands will prepare an Environmental Assessment to inform a decision on designation of motor vehicle use on National Forest System Roads on the Little Missouri National Grassland.
The groups on this fight
4 groups predicted likely to care in Missouri and North Dakota
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Missouri and North Dakota, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Honor the Earth
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works North Dakota: On the ground in North Dakota.
- Sierra Club
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri: Its Missouri Chapter joined Heartwood and the Missouri Forest Alliance in an October 2024 formal objection to the revised forest plan over removed roadless areas, lead mining, and subsidized commercial logging.
- Southern Environmental Law Center
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Mark Twain National Forest, Missouri: Its February 2024 timber targets lawsuit charges the Forest Service with ignoring the cumulative climate impacts of logging projects including one on the Mark Twain National Forest.
- Theodore Roosevelt Rough Riders
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Works North Dakota: They work only in North Dakota.
Every group above is on STAND for Public Lands, with its court record, its filings and who backs it.
Who signs it
The notice names no signer PLAN could read. PLAN names a decision-maker only when the document names one.
The ground
This fight isn’t bound to a map place in PLAN’s record yet. The notice names Little Missouri National Grassland, Dakota Prairie Grasslands (MO, ND); none is a unit on the threatened lands map, so there’s no place page to open or watch.
The photograph on this page: Little Missouri River, Theodore Roosevelt National Park, North Dakota. More Than Just Parks.
In court on this ground
This fight isn’t bound to a land unit in PLAN’s record yet, so there are no court cases to show for its ground.
Who holds the vote
PLAN’s record doesn’t tie a member of Congress to this fight yet. The scorecard grades the votes and bills that decide public lands; nothing joins a vote or a bill to this decision, so there’s no member to name here without guessing.
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