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Who’s defending Chequamegon-Nicolet?

National forest in Wisconsin, managed by the U.S. Forest Service, designated in 1933.

The groups

No group is listed for Chequamegon-Nicolet yet

A group is listed here only with a source that ties it to Chequamegon-Nicolet: a court case, its own comment to the agency, its own page, an event on its calendar. None is held yet. That is not the same as nobody fighting.

Your group works here? Add it. Send the page on your group’s own site that says it works on Chequamegon-Nicolet. A person on the desk reads it before anything lists.

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The situation

What’s happening to Chequamegon-Nicolet

GreenLight Wisconsin LLC has asked the Bureau of Land Management for a permit to prospect for hardrock minerals at the Bend deposit, a copper and gold body under the Medford-Park Falls Ranger District in Taylor County. The federal surface belongs to the Chequamegon-Nicolet, the only national forest in Wisconsin, and that gives the Forest Service consent authority. The agency can say no. Prospecting is not a mine, but it is how a mine starts, and northern Wisconsin has spent four decades fighting exactly this sequence in exactly this rock. The Forest Service is taking comments before it decides whether to consent.

1933Chequamegon and Nicolet National Forests established
2026Forest Service opens comment on the Bend deposit prospecting permitUSDA Forest Service · August 1, 2026

No public comment window is open on Chequamegon-Nicolet right now. A call script is ready on the Public Lands Action Network, and the groups above are how the fight gets funded and argued in the meantime.

Your move

How to stand for Chequamegon-Nicolet

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Build my lineup around Chequamegon-Nicolet: a group in the fight here opens it, and the other seats are the matchmaker’s picks.

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Sources and method

The situation, timeline, and threats: the MTJP threatened-lands record for Chequamegon-Nicolet, with per-item sources. Which groups are listed for this place: a group is listed only under a sourced fact, and each chip opens its source. Local means headquartered in the state (the group’s own site, else the legal domicile on its 990) or the place named in its mission on its latest 990. In the fight means a case over the place naming it (the court docket), its own comment on a decision about the place (regulations.gov), an editors’ link with its source or its own page approved by a person here, or events on its own calendar held at the place. No fact, no listing. Org-reported figures are always labeled. Data verified as of 2026-09-28. No group pays to be listed on this page or for where it sits.