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Stop uncontrolled snowmobile expansion in Rio Grande National Forest
U.S. Forest Service · Rio Grande National Forest, Rio Grande National Forest - Ranger District 1
- What
- The Forest Service wants to open roads, trails, and areas across all of Rio Grande National Forest to motorized snowmobiles.
- Where
- Rio Grande National Forest, Rio Grande National Forest - Ranger District 1, Rio Grande National Forest - Ranger District 2, CO
- How much
- Quiet winter wilderness across all three ranger districts of the Rio Grande National Forest faces permanent motorized vehicle designation.
- Decided
- Comments closed; deadline not stated by the agency. No decision document is on file yet.
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.
- DecidedWe haven’t found where this fight’s close date came from, so the card shows no date. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record November 9, 2026.
What the proposal said, and what the decision did
No figure from the proposal has been checked against the decision on this fight yet. What the record does hold is the issues ledger below.
No decision document is on PLAN’s record for this fight yet. When the agency’s decision lands, what it answered goes here.
Affects public lands
The Forest Service wants to open roads, trails, and areas across all of Rio Grande National Forest to motorized snowmobiles.
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 Rio Grande National Forest proposes to designate National Forest System roads, trails and areas for motorized over snow vehicle use for all three Ranger Districts.
The groups on this fight
4 groups predicted likely to care in Colorado
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Colorado, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- Rocky Mountain Wild
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Colorado BLM Lease Sale, Colorado: Joined the formal challenge to the January 2026 replacement lease sale and previously sued BLM over the Roan Plateau leases.
- San Juan Citizens Alliance
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Canyons of the Ancients National Monument, Colorado: Shaped the 2010 management plan, has fought oil and gas leasing decisions inside the monument for two decades, mobilized against the 2017 monument review, and states it continues to defend CANM.
- Thompson Divide Coalition
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Thompson Divide, Colorado: A conservation group working on Thompson Divide.
- WildEarth Guardians
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Dinosaur National Monument, Colorado: Named petitioner against the Uinta Basin Railway over habitat destruction in the basin.
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
The window has closed, so there’s no watch to set on it here.
In court on this ground
No court case we track is over Rio Grande National Forest.
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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