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The LFDC NEPA Tracker monitors active NEPA projects across National Forests in Washington, Oregon, California, and Alaska, giving advocates real-time visibility into proposed logging, land management, and restoration activities on public lands.

Projects are updated daily and organized to quickly find new projects and ones currently inviting public participation.

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33 of 162 active projects
Mixed Impact
Mixed Impact
Taking Comments Now! 6/30/26 11:59 PM PDT
Los Padres National Forest
Wildfire Risk Reduction Project (formerly the Ecological Restoration Project) PALS # 62369
The project is designed to increase community/infrastructure protection, improve wildfire containment opportunities, and improve vegetation resilience to environmental stressors. A notice of Emergency Situation Determination approval has been posted. Comments will be accepted from June 24-30, 2026.
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MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 7/29/2022
Finding/Decision Date
📍 Los Padres National Forest 🏷 Fuels management · Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Watershed management · Wildlife, fish, rare plants Added: 2026-05-28
3 Days Left to Comment
Taking Comments Now! 6/30/26 11:59 PM PDT
Developing Proposal
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 7/29/2022
Finding/Decision Date
Significant Effect
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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MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date
Finding/Decision Date
📍 Klamath Ranger District 🏷 Fuels management Added: 2026-06-18
Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date
Finding/Decision Date
Mixed Impact
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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MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 04/2023 (Estimated)
Decision 09/2023 (Estimated)
Implementation 09/2023 (Estimated)
📍 R6 - Pacific Northwest Region All Units 🏷 Wildlife, fish, rare plants · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28
Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 04/2023 (Estimated)
Decision 09/2023 (Estimated)
Implementation 09/2023 (Estimated)
Significant Effect
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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MilestoneDate
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)
📍 Blue Mountain Ranger District 🏷 Forest products · Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Fuels management · Watershed management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress
MilestoneDate
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
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.
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 09/06/2024
Decision 10/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation 10/2024 (Estimated)
📍 Wallowa-Whitman National Forest All Units 🏷 Wildlife, fish, rare plants · Minerals and geology Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 09/06/2024
Decision 10/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation 10/2024 (Estimated)
Significant Effect
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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MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 05/23/2024
Decision 09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 10/2025 (Estimated)
📍 Whitman Ranger District 🏷 Fuels management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 05/23/2024
Decision 09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 10/2025 (Estimated)
Significant Effect
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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MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 5/23/2024
Finding/Decision Date
📍 WHITMAN RANGER DISTRICT 🏷 Fuels management · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28
Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 5/23/2024
Finding/Decision Date
Mixed Impact
Mixed Impact
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
Meadow Creek Watershed Restoration
Hazardous fuel reduction, watershed restoration, and research
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MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date
Finding/Decision Date
📍 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
Developing Proposal
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date
Finding/Decision Date
Uncategorized
Uncategorized
Wallowa-Whitman National Forest
ODOT Summit Point Communication Site, SUP PIN201802
Renewal of communication tower lease.
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 02/18/2019
Decision 09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 10/2025 (Estimated)
📍 Whitman Ranger District 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 02/18/2019
Decision 09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 10/2025 (Estimated)
Significant Effect
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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MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 01/2026 (Estimated)
Decision 01/2027 (Estimated)
Implementation 06/2028 (Estimated)
📍 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
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 01/2026 (Estimated)
Decision 01/2027 (Estimated)
Implementation 06/2028 (Estimated)
Significant Effect
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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MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date
Finding/Decision Date
📍 WHITMAN RANGER DISTRICT 🏷 Fuels management · Regulations, directives, orders · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28
Developing Proposal
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date
Finding/Decision Date
Significant Effect
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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MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 12/10/2025
Finding/Decision Date
📍 La Grande Ranger District 🏷 Fuels management · Regulations, directives, orders · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28
Developing Proposal
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 12/10/2025
Finding/Decision Date
Mixed Impact
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.
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 01/24/2023
Decision 06/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation 08/2024 (Estimated)
📍 Chemult Ranger District 🏷 Special use management · Road management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 01/24/2023
Decision 06/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation 08/2024 (Estimated)
Significant Effect
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.
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 01/23/2025
Decision 04/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation 07/2026 (Estimated)
📍 Klamath Ranger District 🏷 Grazing management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 01/23/2025
Decision 04/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation 07/2026 (Estimated)
Uncategorized
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.
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 01/18/2022
Decision 08/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation 11/2026 (Estimated)
📍 Klamath Ranger District 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 01/18/2022
Decision 08/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation 11/2026 (Estimated)
Uncategorized
Uncategorized
Fremont-Winema National Forest
Chiloquin Sewer project
This project will connect the Chiloquin Ranger District to the town of Chiloquin's sewer line
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 03/20/2015
Decision 01/1970 (Estimated)
Implementation 06/2015 (Estimated)
📍 Chiloquin Ranger District 🏷 Facility management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 03/20/2015
Decision 01/1970 (Estimated)
Implementation 06/2015 (Estimated)
Uncategorized
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.
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 11/2024 (Estimated)
Comment Period 02/2025 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start 05/2025 (Estimated)
Decision 09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 06/2026 (Estimated)
📍 Klamath Ranger District 🏷 Recreation management Added: 2026-05-28
Developing Proposal
MilestoneDate
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
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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MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 10/30/2024
Decision 01/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 04/2025 (Estimated)
📍 Bly Ranger District 🏷 Fuels management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 10/30/2024
Decision 01/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 04/2025 (Estimated)
Significant Effect
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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MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 2/27/2026
Finding/Decision Date
📍 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
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 2/27/2026
Finding/Decision Date
Significant Effect
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
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 2/4/2026
Finding/Decision Date
📍 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
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 2/4/2026
Finding/Decision Date
Uncategorized
Uncategorized
Inyo National Forest
Crystal Crag Water Storage Tank Replacement
The removal of two existing water storage tanks & constructing a new one. The new steel water storage tank will be 20,000-gallons, 16-foot diameter and 16 ft high. Including new inlet, outlet, drain, overflow, water supply, and distribution pipelines
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 09/2024 (Estimated)
Decision 09/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation 09/2024 (Estimated)
📍 Inyo National Forest All Units 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-05-28
Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 09/2024 (Estimated)
Decision 09/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation 09/2024 (Estimated)
Uncategorized
Uncategorized
Inyo National Forest
E. Clampus Vitus Bodie Chapter No. 64 Tamarack Lodge Plaque
Bodie Chapter No. 64 of E. Clampus Vitus is to construct a historical marker w/ bronze plaque northeast of the Tamarack Lodge entrance commemorating the history of the Lodge & its contribution to the history of Mono County and the Mammoth Lakes Basin
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 07/23/2024
Decision 08/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation 09/2024 (Estimated)
📍 Mammoth Ranger District 🏷 Heritage resource management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 07/23/2024
Decision 08/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation 09/2024 (Estimated)
Uncategorized
Uncategorized
Inyo National Forest
LADWP Long Valley Pole Removal and Pole Replacement Project
LADWP Utility Maintenance Project:1)removal of poles & replacement of poles in one line and 2)removal of poles & rehab in second line, 3)relinquish poles
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 04/2024 (Estimated)
Decision 07/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation 10/2024 (Estimated)
📍 Inyo National Forest All Units 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-05-28
Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 04/2024 (Estimated)
Decision 07/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation 10/2024 (Estimated)
Significant Effect
Significant Effect
Inyo National Forest
Long Valley Exploration Drilling
On November 12, 2025, the Mammoth Lakes Ranger District of the Inyo National Forest received a Plan of Operations (Plan) from KORE USA Ltd. (KORE) for their Long Valley Exploration Drilling project in Mono County, California. KORE plans to conduct exploration-level activities for deposits of gold.
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 4/3/2026
Finding/Decision Date
📍 Inyo National Forest 🏷 Minerals and geology Added: 2026-05-28
Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 4/3/2026
Finding/Decision Date
Uncategorized
Uncategorized
Inyo National Forest
Mammoth Mountain Main Lodge Redevelopment
Mammoth Mountain proposes redeveloping its Main Lodge area on private land, with related development on adjacent National Forest lands. Joint CEQA/NEPA analysis. Proposed construction/reconstruction of parking lots,buildings,chairlifts and ski runs.
MilestoneDate
NOI in Federal Register 11/14/2022
DEIS NOA in Federal Register 08/2025 (Estimated)
FEIS NOA in Federal Register 04/2025 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start 01/2026 (Estimated)
Decision 04/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation 04/2027 (Estimated)
📍 Inyo National Forest All Units 🏷 Recreation management · Special use management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress
MilestoneDate
NOI in Federal Register 11/14/2022
DEIS NOA in Federal Register 08/2025 (Estimated)
FEIS NOA in Federal Register 04/2025 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start 01/2026 (Estimated)
Decision 04/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation 04/2027 (Estimated)
Uncategorized
Uncategorized
Inyo National Forest
Permit Reissuances - Ongoing, various permit types
Ongoing and continuous reissuance of various special use authorizations. Examples of these are resorts, research activities, utilities and events. For further information on any specific permit or permitted activities, contact Erin Noesser.
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 12/10/2018
Decision 06/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation 06/2026 (Estimated)
📍 Inyo National Forest All Units 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 12/10/2018
Decision 06/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation 06/2026 (Estimated)
Restorative Impact
Restorative Impact
Inyo National Forest
Reds Meadow Valley Recreation Site Renovations
Renovations & ecological restoration at 7 recreation sites / campgrounds in Reds Meadow Valley designed to enhance overall visitor experience, ensure recreation assets support current & future visitation & protect/restore ecologically sensitive areas
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 05/08/2024
Decision 12/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation 06/2025 (Estimated)
📍 Mammoth Ranger District 🏷 Recreation management · Watershed management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 05/08/2024
Decision 12/2024 (Estimated)
Implementation 06/2025 (Estimated)
Significant Effect
Significant Effect
Inyo National Forest
Rock Creek Lodge Resort Wildfire Resilience
Fuels reduction and forest resilience project surrounding the Rock Creek Lakes Resort permit area on the Inyo National Forest. Project is funded by a National Resources Conservation Service grant.
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MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 09/01/2024
Decision 03/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 06/2025 (Estimated)
📍 Inyo National Forest All Units 🏷 Fuels management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 09/01/2024
Decision 03/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 06/2025 (Estimated)
Uncategorized
Uncategorized
Inyo National Forest
Sherwin Area Recreation Plan 3 (SHARP)
Development of designated trails for protection of natural and cultural resources. This proposed action includes decommissioning of user created trails, reconstruction of user created trails, and new trail construction.
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 04/2025 (Estimated)
Decision 06/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 07/2025 (Estimated)
📍 Mammoth Ranger District 🏷 Recreation management Added: 2026-05-28
Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 04/2025 (Estimated)
Decision 06/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 07/2025 (Estimated)
Significant Effect
Significant Effect
Los Padres National Forest
Establishing Interim Direction for Oil & Gas Leasing Management
Amend the Los Padres Forest Plan and the Southern California Forest Plan to establish interim direction for processing new lease applications for oil and gas, and remove references to and withdraw the 2005 Oil and Gas Record of Decision. https://usfs-public.box.com/s/8hb9zdav0fv3huge15oga4bzaec0yji6
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 12/4/2025
Finding/Decision Date
📍 Los Padres National Forest 🏷 Land management planning Added: 2026-05-28
Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 12/4/2025
Finding/Decision Date
Uncategorized
Uncategorized
Los Padres National Forest
Los Prietos Helibase
The proposal is to construct a helicopter pad, associated safety facilities, and office space for the module within the lower compound at the Los Prietos Ranger Station.
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 4/1/2026
Finding/Decision Date
📍 Santa Barbara Ranger District 🏷 Facility management Added: 2026-05-28
Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 4/1/2026
Finding/Decision Date
Significant Effect
Significant Effect
Los Padres National Forest
Mount Pinos Forest Health Project - PALS #58380
Healthy Forest thinning project designed to improve the health and vigor of the existing stands and to make the stands more resilient to stressors such as drought, insects & wildfire.
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MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 3/30/2021
Finding/Decision Date
📍 Los Padres National Forest 🏷 Forest products · Fuels management · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28
Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
NEPA Start Date 3/30/2021
Finding/Decision Date
Restorative Impact
Restorative Impact
Los Padres National Forest
Rose Valley Creek Restoration Project
This proposal aims to restore Rose Valley Creek to its historical stream function, form, and habitat to benefit native aquatic species and armor Rose Valley creek from future wildfires by bolstering the riparian zone.
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 05/11/2022
Comment Period 06/09/2022
Decision 05/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 08/2026 (Estimated)
📍 Ojai Ranger District 🏷 Wildlife, fish, rare plants · Watershed management Added: 2026-05-28
In Progress Categorical Exclusion
MilestoneDate
Scoping Start 05/11/2022
Comment Period 06/09/2022
Decision 05/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation 08/2026 (Estimated)