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The Michigan Department of Natural Resources is looking for your help to update its usage rules and maps of roads in our state forests.
Options include adding roads that are not currently mapped, removing roads that no longer exist, opening or closing roads to use by conventional vehicles, and opening or closing roads to use by off-road vehicles.
Comments can be submitted at Michigan.gov/ForestRoads, where maps of the existing state forest road system are available. Email comments can be sent to DNR-RoadInventoryProject@Michigan.gov. Comments should be submitted by December 1st.
Comments also will be accepted at upcoming Michigan Natural Resources Commission meetings in early 2023. State forest road proposals will be brought before the DNR director for information at the January meeting. At the February meeting, the DNR director is expected to make a formal decision on the proposed changes.
New maps will go into effect and be published online April 1, 2023.
