Comments closed September 2
Stop Lolo National Forest land sale in Missoula County
U.S. Forest Service · Lolo National Forest, South Side Addition, N1/2SE1/4 Section 29, T.13 N., R 19 W., Missoula County, Montana
- What
- The Forest Service proposes to permanently sell public land in Missoula County, Montana.
- Where
- Lolo National Forest, South Side Addition, N1/2SE1/4 Section 29, T.13 N., R 19 W., Missoula County, Montana, MT
- How much
- Tracts of Lolo National Forest land in the South Side Addition near Missoula would be sold outright and removed from public ownership.
- Decided
- Comments closed September 2, 2026. No decision document is on file yet.Date from Forest Service comment page (CARA) ↗, read August 4, 2026.
Where these four lines come from
- WhatOur plain-English read of the U.S. Forest Service project page ↗. Check it against the agency’s own words under Case.
- WhereThe places and states the notice 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.
- DecidedSeptember 2, 2026, from Forest Service comment page (CARA), its “comments are requested through” date ↗. Read August 4, 2026. The decision document is the one on file in PLAN’s record.
- Read from PLAN’s record October 15, 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.
PLAN's read: high threat
The Forest Service proposes to permanently sell public land in Missoula County, Montana.
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 Forest Service is proposing to sell multiple tracts of land being a portion of the South Side Addition in the N1/2SE1/4 of section 29, T.13 N., R 19 W., Principal Meridian, Montana, Missoula County. Montana. See: https://usfs-public.box.com/s/8p717b4j1blwi1q0p4v9qqrpn285rmqn for more detail.
The groups on this fight
4 groups predicted likely to care in Montana
Predicted likely to care is a guess from the group's sourced work in Montana, with no link to this decision. Give straight to them; nothing routes through us.
- American Prairie
Predicted likely to care · a guess
American Prairie, Montana: Defending its own bison herd, formally protesting BLM's revocation of grazing permits on 63,000 public-land acres.
- Defenders of Wildlife
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, Montana: Named plaintiff in the Rock Creek Mine case, which turned on threatened grizzly bears and bull trout.
- Earthjustice
Predicted likely to care · a guess
Cabinet Mountains Wilderness, Montana: Counsel in the long-running litigation against the Rock Creek and Montanore mines proposed beneath the wilderness.
- Western Watersheds Project
Predicted likely to care · a guess
American Prairie, Montana: Filed a protest against BLM's revocation of the bison grazing permits.
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
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The photograph on this page: Moose in a summer wildflower meadow. It’s the country this decision sits in, not the site itself. More Than Just Parks.
Who holds the vote
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