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Significant Effect

Fremont-Winema National Forest

Lake of the Woods Fuel Break

Project uses understory thinning, mastication, and prescribed fire to create and maintain fuel breaks and defensible space. Small trees are thinned, slash piled or burned, and fuels reduced through hand/machine piling, pile burning, underburning, and mastication.

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📍 Klamath Ranger District 🏷 Fuels management Added: 2026-06-18

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Mixed Impact

Colville National Forest

Buckhorn Project

Vegetation management, fuels management, and aquatic restoration.

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	8/5/2024
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Tonasket Ranger District 🏷 Fuels management · Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Watershed management Added: 2026-06-15

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	8/5/2024
Finding/Decision Date	—

Mixed Impact

MBS, Okan-Wen, Colville, Wallowa-Whitman, Fremont-Winema, Deschutes, Umatilla, Malheur

Region 6 Elite Tree Protection Project

The Pacific Northwest Region is collaborating with nine Forests to develop a region-wide project to protect whitebark pine trees (Pinus albicaulis) that have a high level of white pine blister rust resistance.

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Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	04/2023 (Estimated)
Decision	09/2023 (Estimated)
Implementation	09/2023 (Estimated)

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📍 R6 - Pacific Northwest Region All Units 🏷 Wildlife, fish, rare plants · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	04/2023 (Estimated)
Decision	09/2023 (Estimated)
Implementation	09/2023 (Estimated)

Uncategorized

Colville National Forest

49 Degrees North Mountain Resort Enhancement

New bike park and alpine roller coaster for summer use. Expansion of snowmaking to include additional terrain and reservoirs. Modification of 4 ski trails to improve access. Construction of Saddle Lodge and restrooms.

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	9/26/2023
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Newport Ranger District 🏷 Recreation management Added: 2026-05-28

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	9/26/2023
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Colville National Forest

Boulder Park Ecological Resotration Project

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	4/12/2018
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Newport Ranger District Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	4/12/2018
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Colville National Forest

Bulldog

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📍 Three Rivers Ranger District Added: 2026-05-28

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Colville National Forest

Bulldog supplemental

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📍 Three Rivers Ranger District Added: 2026-05-28

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NEPA Start Date	—
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Uncategorized

Colville National Forest

Chewelah A-Z

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	8/27/2020
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Three Rivers Ranger District Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	8/27/2020
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Colville National Forest

Harvey Creek Subwatershed Restoration

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	2/15/2017
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Newport Ranger District 🏷 Forest products Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	2/15/2017
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Colville National Forest

Leclerc Creek Grazing Allotment Management Planning

Analyze the options for management of grazing in the LeClerc Creek drainage.

Milestone	Date
NOI in Federal Register	04/22/2013
DEIS NOA in Federal Register	07/13/2015
FEIS NOA in Federal Register	08/2018 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start	08/2018 (Estimated)
Decision	11/2018 (Estimated)
Implementation	11/2018 (Estimated)

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📍 Sullivan Lake Ranger District 🏷 Grazing management Added: 2026-05-28

Cancelled

Milestone	Date
NOI in Federal Register	04/22/2013
DEIS NOA in Federal Register	07/13/2015
FEIS NOA in Federal Register	08/2018 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start	08/2018 (Estimated)
Decision	11/2018 (Estimated)
Implementation	11/2018 (Estimated)

Uncategorized

Colville National Forest

Meadow Lakes

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	2/25/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Three Rivers Ranger District Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	2/25/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

Mixed Impact

Colville National Forest

Meadow Maintenance

Maintain Meadows by removing encroaching conifers and maintaining infrastructure (e.g. exclosures, boulders).

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	7/2/2020
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Newport Ranger District 🏷 Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Wildlife, fish, rare plants Added: 2026-05-28

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	7/2/2020
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Colville National Forest

Quartz

Up to 2,900 acres of forest health treatments, about 4 miles of hand and machine fireline to support prescribed fire underburning, about 3 miles of temporary road access to treatment units, reconstruction of about 5 miles of existing non-system road templates (all 8 miles would be decommissioned).

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Acres Treated

2,900

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	3/15/2024
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Republic Ranger District 🏷 Fuels management · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28

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Acres Treated

2,900

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	3/15/2024
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Colville National Forest

Slate

Improve forest health and resilience to disturbance through 13,000 acres of forest thinning, and improve aquatic and wildlife habitat with over 6 miles of instream restoration projects.

Acres of Forest Thinning

13,000

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	8/3/2023
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Newport Ranger District Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Acres of Forest Thinning

13,000

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	8/3/2023
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Colville National Forest

Sweet-Ione Integrated Resources Improvement Project

Create a range of forest structural stages that supports resilience and is compatible with characteristic disturbance processes (wildland fire, insects and diseases), and supports aquatic and terrestrial habitat conditions and associated species.

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	6/30/2019
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Newport Ranger District 🏷 Forest products · Fuels management · Grazing management · Heritage resource management · Recreation management · Road management · Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Watershed management · Wildlife, fish, rare plants Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	6/30/2019
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Colville National Forest

Sxwuytn-Kaniksu Connections (Trail) Project

This is a multi-faceted project focusing on restoring healthy forests, connecting lands and people, improving watershed function, and providing economic stability.

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	1/23/2020
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Newport Ranger District Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	1/23/2020
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Colville National Forest

Tacoma Creek Salvage

Salvage trees within previously identified units of the Swamp Creek sale area that burned in the Tacoma Creek Fire.

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	9/30/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Newport Ranger District Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	9/30/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

Mixed Impact

Colville National Forest

Tonata Trout

A project to conduct vegetation and fuels management, meadow restoration, aquatic restoration, and other work in the Tonata Trout project area.

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	11/14/2023
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Republic Ranger District 🏷 Fuels management · Recreation management · Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Watershed management Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	11/14/2023
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Colville National Forest

Upper West Branch LeClerc Creek fish Management Structure

Installation of a fish management structure on Upper West Branch LeClerc Creek for the purpose of non-native trout eradication by WDFW and Kalispel Tribe

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	1/3/2023
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Newport Ranger District Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	1/3/2023
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Wallowa-Whitman, Malheur

Austin

This project includes a suite of activities to restore forest and watershed resiliency, including: fuels treatments and prescribed burning; and upland and watershed restoration.

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Milestone	Date
NOI in Federal Register	05/15/2025
DEIS NOA in Federal Register	02/02/2026
FEIS NOA in Federal Register	08/2026 (Estimated)
Decision	04/2027 (Estimated)
Implementation	04/2027 (Estimated)

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📍 Blue Mountain Ranger District 🏷 Forest products · Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Fuels management · Watershed management Added: 2026-05-28

In Progress

Milestone	Date
NOI in Federal Register	05/15/2025
DEIS NOA in Federal Register	02/02/2026
FEIS NOA in Federal Register	08/2026 (Estimated)
Decision	04/2027 (Estimated)
Implementation	04/2027 (Estimated)

Mixed Impact

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Bull Run Restoration Geotechnical Analysis CE

Bull Run Meadows Restoration Project geotechnical analysis of current subsurface substrates in mine waste piles. Excavation of a trench 8-10 feet deep, 3 feet wide and 12 feet long. Total disturbance will be less than 1/10th acre.

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	09/06/2024
Decision	10/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation	10/2024 (Estimated)

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📍 Wallowa-Whitman National Forest All Units 🏷 Wildlife, fish, rare plants · Minerals and geology Added: 2026-05-28

In Progress Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	09/06/2024
Decision	10/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation	10/2024 (Estimated)

Significant Effect

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Huckleberry DFPZ

A Defensible Fuel Profile Zone (DFPZ) project to reduce the fuel loading in strategic areas that would help in the aid in fire suppression on FS along private boundaries, ridgelines and or road corridors.

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Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	05/23/2024
Decision	09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	10/2025 (Estimated)

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📍 Whitman Ranger District 🏷 Fuels management Added: 2026-05-28

In Progress Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	05/23/2024
Decision	09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	10/2025 (Estimated)

Significant Effect

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Huckleberry Defensible Fuels Profile Zone

A Defensible Fuel Profile Zone (DFPZ) project to reduce the fuel loading in strategic areas that would help in the aid in fire suppression on FS along private boundaries, ridgelines and or road corridors.

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	5/23/2024
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 WHITMAN RANGER DISTRICT 🏷 Fuels management · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	5/23/2024
Finding/Decision Date	—

Mixed Impact

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Meadow Creek Watershed Restoration

Hazardous fuel reduction, watershed restoration, and research

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Milestone	Date
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📍 La Grande Ranger District 🏷 Fuels management · Regulations, directives, orders · Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Watershed management · Wildlife, fish, rare plants Added: 2026-05-28

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

ODOT Summit Point Communication Site, SUP PIN201802

Renewal of communication tower lease.

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	02/18/2019
Decision	09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	10/2025 (Estimated)

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📍 Whitman Ranger District 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-05-28

In Progress Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	02/18/2019
Decision	09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	10/2025 (Estimated)

Significant Effect

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Race Cow Project

Improve forest resilience, reduce hazardous fuels, enhance native grasslands, improve road access, develop two rock pits, reduce sediment delivery, provide timber products. Requesting EAD under IIJA, comment period per IIJA offered if granted.

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Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	01/2026 (Estimated)
Decision	01/2027 (Estimated)
Implementation	06/2028 (Estimated)

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📍 Salmon River Ranger District 🏷 Wildlife, fish, rare plants · Forest products · Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Fuels management · Road management Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	01/2026 (Estimated)
Decision	01/2027 (Estimated)
Implementation	06/2028 (Estimated)

Significant Effect

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Red Cougar Integrated Vegetation Management

Hazardous fuels reduction using prescribed burning, commercial and noncommercial thinning.

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 WHITMAN RANGER DISTRICT 🏷 Fuels management · Regulations, directives, orders · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Sufferin' Springs Vegetation Management Project

Hazardous fuels reduction within stands at high risk for insect and disease out break as well as a high risk fireshed.

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	12/10/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 La Grande Ranger District 🏷 Fuels management · Regulations, directives, orders · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	12/10/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

Mixed Impact

Fremont-Winema National Forest

BPA-Lapine-Chiloquin Priority Pole Project

BPA has identified roads that require maintenance to ensure safe access to the LAPI-CHIL-1 transmission facilities. The road maintenance will allow BPA to also perform wood pole replacements that need to be completed along the transmission line.

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	01/24/2023
Decision	06/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation	08/2024 (Estimated)

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📍 Chemult Ranger District 🏷 Special use management · Road management Added: 2026-05-28

In Progress Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	01/24/2023
Decision	06/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation	08/2024 (Estimated)

Significant Effect

Fremont-Winema National Forest

Buck/Indian North Boundary Fence

There is a need to re-establish the northern boundary of the Buck/Indian cattle allotment to allow better management of the northern section of the allotment.

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	01/23/2025
Decision	04/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation	07/2026 (Estimated)

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📍 Klamath Ranger District 🏷 Grazing management Added: 2026-05-28

In Progress Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	01/23/2025
Decision	04/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation	07/2026 (Estimated)

Uncategorized

Fremont-Winema National Forest

Buffalo Meadow Warming Shelter Project

This project proposes to install a pre-engineered shelter on the edge of a large meadow, known locally as Buffalo Meadow.

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	01/18/2022
Decision	08/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation	11/2026 (Estimated)

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📍 Klamath Ranger District 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-05-28

In Progress Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	01/18/2022
Decision	08/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation	11/2026 (Estimated)

Uncategorized

Fremont-Winema National Forest

Chiloquin Sewer project

This project will connect the Chiloquin Ranger District to the town of Chiloquin's sewer line

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	03/20/2015
Decision	01/1970 (Estimated)
Implementation	06/2015 (Estimated)

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📍 Chiloquin Ranger District 🏷 Facility management Added: 2026-05-28

In Progress Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	03/20/2015
Decision	01/1970 (Estimated)
Implementation	06/2015 (Estimated)

Uncategorized

Fremont-Winema National Forest

Mt. McLoughlin Trailhead Relocation Project

There is a need to relocate the Mt. Mcloughlin Trailhead and parking area to avoid initial and long-term maintenance costs associated with constructing a new bridge across the Cascade Canal.

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	11/2024 (Estimated)
Comment Period	02/2025 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start	05/2025 (Estimated)
Decision	09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	06/2026 (Estimated)

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📍 Klamath Ranger District 🏷 Recreation management Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	11/2024 (Estimated)
Comment Period	02/2025 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start	05/2025 (Estimated)
Decision	09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	06/2026 (Estimated)

Significant Effect

Fremont-Winema National Forest

Paddock Butte Prescribed Fire

Working together, Federal, State and Private land managers have the opportunity to reintroduce fire on an interagency landscape in the Paddock Butte area.

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Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	10/30/2024
Decision	01/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	04/2025 (Estimated)

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📍 Bly Ranger District 🏷 Fuels management Added: 2026-05-28

In Progress Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	10/30/2024
Decision	01/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	04/2025 (Estimated)

Significant Effect

Fremont-Winema National Forest

Paradise Restoration Project

The primary purpose of the Paradise Restoration Project is ecosystem restoration. Action is needed to restore healthy forest ecosystems, improve wildlife habitats, and protect life, property, and infrastructure within and adjacent to the project area.

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	2/27/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Bly Ranger District 🏷 Forest products · Fuels management · Land management planning · Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Wildlife, fish, rare plants Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	2/27/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Fremont-Winema National Forest

Post-fire Competing Vegetation Management

The Forest Service is proposing to implement herbicide treatments for forest re-establishment and trail maintenance to reduce competing vegetation on approximately 43,000 acres of Forest System Lands that have been impacted by recent wildfires.

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Acres	426,500
Acres	91,710
Acres	62,160
Acres	51,380
Acres (approx.)	43,000
Acres	8,946

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	2/4/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Fremont-Winema National Forest 🏷 Fuels management · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Acres	426,500
Acres	91,710
Acres	62,160
Acres	51,380
Acres (approx.)	43,000
Acres	8,946

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	2/4/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—