The U.S. Forest Service has released a draft decision regarding updates to oil and gas leasing for the Little Missouri National Grassland and is accepting any public objections for 45 days.
About 893,000 acres of the grassland are available for oil and gas leasing. The recommended changes would provide access to an additional 216,000 acres, while providing protections for sage grouse, rare plants and fossils, according to the Forest Service's Dakota Prairie Grasslands office.
The agency earlier took public comment on a draft supplemental environmental impact statement. It announced the final EIS and draft decision on Monday. They can be found at https://www.fs.usda.gov/project/?project=40652.
Objections can be sent electronically to comments-northern-dakota-prairie@fs.fed.us or mailed/hand-delivered to the Dakota Prairie Grasslands, 2000 Miriam Circle, Bismarck, ND 58501.
Much more at the link.
For more on North Dakota sage grouse, see this link.
Little Missouri National Grassland at this link.
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