LFDC NEPA Tracker

Uncategorized

Klamath National Forest

Cal-Ore A-Cam

This project proposes installing 5,631 feet of fiber optic near Butte Valley Airport, and another 4,740 feet south of the airport. Actions for the underground conduit install would require cable plow and directional boring within the existing right of way.

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	3/26/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Goosenest Ranger District 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-06-26

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	3/26/2026
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

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

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
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision 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

Developing Proposal

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

Developing Proposal

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	—

Uncategorized

Deschutes National Forest

2025 Crescent and Odell Lake Recreation Residence Small Projects Batch 1

Authorization was requested from 5 recreation residence owners on Crescent Lake, 4 owners on Odell Lake, and from the Shelter Cove Resort to complete minor upgrades or replacements such as deck or stair replacements and roof repairs.

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	05/15/2025
Decision	09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	09/2025 (Estimated)

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

In Progress Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	05/15/2025
Decision	09/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	09/2025 (Estimated)

Uncategorized

Deschutes National Forest

Bend to Lava Lands Paved Path

Construct a non-motorized paved path that would provide connections to recreation sites south of Bend, OR. The entire length of the path would be from Baker Road to Lava Lands Visitor Center.

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	3/3/2022
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 🏷 Recreation management Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	3/3/2022
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Deschutes National Forest

Class 1, Pedal-assist E-bikes on Select Trails

This project is considering the use of class 1 e-bikes on select trails with the designed use of bicycle. The proposed action includes 67 trails, totaling 161.4 miles as open to class 1 e-bikes.

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	7/2/2024
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Deschutes National Forest 🏷 Recreation management Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	7/2/2024
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Deschutes National Forest

Cougar Rock Restoration Project

The project proposes to maintain and restore resiliency and forest health and to address the potential risk of large-scale high severity wildfires. Proposed actions include thinning, mowing and prescribed burning on up to 2,800 acres.

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Acres (approx.)

2,800

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	12/16/2022
Finding/Decision Date	—

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

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Acres (approx.)

2,800

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	12/16/2022
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Deschutes National Forest

Crate Vegetation Management Project and Site-Specific Forest Plan Amendment

Vegetation management on approximately 18,168 acres to move forest conditions toward historic range of variability and improve forest resilience to disturbance to reduce the likelihood of uncharacteristic large-scale loss of forest habitat.

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Acres (approx.)

18,168

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	4/21/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 🏷 Forest products Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Acres (approx.)

18,168

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	4/21/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Deschutes National Forest

Flat Top Fire Site Preparation and Reforestation Project

This project proposes site preparation cutting and reforestation on approximately 9,530 acres that experienced a high basal area loss of vegetation as a result of the Flat Top Fire in 2024.

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Acres (approx.)

9,530

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	11/24/2025
Comment Period	12/08/2025
Decision	01/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation	03/2026 (Estimated)

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📍 Deschutes National Forest All Units 🏷 Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28

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Acres (approx.)

9,530

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	11/24/2025
Comment Period	12/08/2025
Decision	01/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation	03/2026 (Estimated)

Significant Effect

Deschutes National Forest

Green Ridge Landscape Restoration

The project would maintain and restore forest conditions closer to the historic range of variability and contribute to the restoration of ecosystem process and function in the planning area. Timber products are an outcome of restoration activities.

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Acres (approx.)

25,000

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	9/1/2017
Finding/Decision Date	—

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

Developing Proposal

Acres (approx.)

25,000

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	9/1/2017
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Deschutes National Forest

MODA Active Management Project

The MODA Active Management Project proposes dry forest restoration techniques in order to improve and maintain the forested ecosystem of of the Moore Creek and Davis Creek Subwatersheds on the Crescent Ranger District.

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Acres

14,723

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	3/2/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—

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

Developing Proposal

Acres

14,723

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	3/2/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Deschutes National Forest

Sisters Trail Additions and Realignments (STAR)

The STAR project proposes several trail actions including new trail construction, additions of existing routes to the official Forest Service trail system, as well as realignments and decommissioning of existing trails on the Sisters Ranger District.

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	7/23/2023
Finding/Decision Date	—

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

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	7/23/2023
Finding/Decision Date	—

Mixed Impact

Deschutes National Forest

Upper Black Butte Swamp Restoration

Upper Black Butte Swamp is a 34-acre wetland that has incised channels and drying out vegetation. The project would restore the fen through channel filling, planting native vegetation, aspen restoration and invasive weed management.

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	6/17/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

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

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	6/17/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Deschutes National Forest

West Bend Trails Project

Trail modifications, such as reroutes, new trails, decommissioning to create a more sustainable trail network while minimizing resource impacts.

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	2/29/2024
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 🏷 Recreation management Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	2/29/2024
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Deschutes National Forest

West Bend Vegetation Management Project

Moving the area toward a more resilient landscape, providing a diversity of habitats, & reducing hazardous fuels. Approximately 14,750 acres of commercial thinning, for a total of 22,000 acres proposed for thinning, mowing, and/or underburning.

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Acres of Thinning, Mowing, And/Or Underburning	22,000
Acres of Commercial Thinning	14,750

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	11/24/2010
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Bend/Fort Rock Ranger District 🏷 Forest products · Fuels management · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Acres of Thinning, Mowing, And/Or Underburning	22,000
Acres of Commercial Thinning	14,750

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	11/24/2010
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Siuslaw National Forest

Five Green Restoration Project

The project purpose is thinning stands less than 80 years old in order to enhance and accelerate old-growth conditions in Late Successional Reserve and Matrix areas. There are commercial thinning actions as well as road work, invasive weed treatments, and slash disposal.

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	2/1/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Central Coast Ranger District-ODNRA 🏷 Forest products · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	2/1/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—

Mixed Impact

Siuslaw National Forest

Forest Plan Amendment for Wilderness Management

Updating standards, guidelines, and other Forest Plan components for stewardship of the Siuslaw's four wilderness areas. Responding to changed conditions since Forest Plan approval, including designation of new wilderness in 2019.

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	12/2025 (Estimated)
Comment Period	12/2025 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start	05/2026 (Estimated)
Decision	07/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation	07/2026 (Estimated)

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📍 Siuslaw National Forest All Units 🏷 Land management planning · Special area management · Projects that may affect wilderness (for mailing list contacts) Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	12/2025 (Estimated)
Comment Period	12/2025 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start	05/2026 (Estimated)
Decision	07/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation	07/2026 (Estimated)

Mixed Impact

Siuslaw National Forest

Integrated Invasive Species Project

This project would develop a strategy that allows an array of tools to be used for reducing invasive weeds across the Siuslaw NF. One component would add four new chemicals to approved use list, requiring a plan amendment. https://bit.ly/3RT9D4e

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Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	06/2025 (Estimated)
Comment Period	06/2025 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start	12/2025 (Estimated)
Decision	03/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation	03/2026 (Estimated)

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📍 Siuslaw National Forest All Units 🏷 Land management planning · Wildlife, fish, rare plants · Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Projects that may affect wilderness (for mailing list contacts) Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	06/2025 (Estimated)
Comment Period	06/2025 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start	12/2025 (Estimated)
Decision	03/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation	03/2026 (Estimated)

Significant Effect

Siuslaw National Forest

North Fork Smith Restoration

This is a landscape-scale terrestrial restoration project in the North Fork Smith River watershed area. Activities include: plantation thinning, wildlife habitat enhancement, invasive plant treatments, and road improvements.

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Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	08/12/2024
Comment Period	08/12/2024
Objection Period Start	06/02/2025
Decision	08/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	09/2025 (Estimated)

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📍 Central Coast Ranger District/Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area 🏷 Wildlife, fish, rare plants · Forest products · Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Road management Added: 2026-05-28

In Progress

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	08/12/2024
Comment Period	08/12/2024
Objection Period Start	06/02/2025
Decision	08/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	09/2025 (Estimated)

Significant Effect

Siuslaw National Forest

Yamina (Yamhill-Willamina) Restoration Project

The Yamina project will focus on commercial thinning to support development of old growth characteristics for the future in the Yamhill-Willamina Watershed.

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	11/3/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

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

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	11/3/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Klamath National Forest

Discovery Day Mine

The Discovery Day Mins is an established mine site that consists of a road, three working pads, and underground tunnels. A Plan of Operations has been proposed to mine the Discovery Day claim

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Salmon River Ranger District 🏷 Minerals and geology Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Klamath National Forest

Klamath and Shasta-Trinity National Forests' Prescribed Fire Project

Fuels reduction and prescribed fire across the landscape. Project details: https://www.fs.usda.gov/r05/klamath/projects/66583

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	12/19/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Klamath National Forest 🏷 Fuels management Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	12/19/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Klamath National Forest

McKinney Fire Restoration EA_Veg/Fuels

The McKinney Fire Restoration EA is proposed within and adjacent to the 2022 McKinney Fire footprint with the purpose of increasing wildfire resilience on the landscape. Proposed activities include a variety of fuels reduction treatments.

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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

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

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Klamath National Forest

Seiad Restoration Thin

The project will treat 3,350 acres within the 4,648-acre project boundary for fire risk reduction and community and resource protection within the Wildland Urban Interface.

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Acres

3,350

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	1/23/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Klamath National Forest 🏷 Forest products · Fuels management Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Acres

3,350

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	1/23/2026
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Klamath National Forest

South Fork

The South Fork project is an active management project with the purpose of addressing hazardous fuels conditions along roads and private property, as well as aligning with Executive Order 14225, Immediate Expansion of American Timber Production.

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Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	06/2026 (Estimated)
Comment Period	09/2026 (Estimated)
Decision	11/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation	04/2027 (Estimated)

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📍 Klamath National Forest All Units 🏷 Forest products · Fuels management Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	06/2026 (Estimated)
Comment Period	09/2026 (Estimated)
Decision	11/2026 (Estimated)
Implementation	04/2027 (Estimated)

Restorative Impact

Klamath National Forest

Windler Bar Habitat Enhancement

There is a need to enhance both fisheries and riparian habitat within the Project area, which is known to host rearing and spawning at-risk salmon. The purpose of this project is to address several critical elements of long-term restoration goals for salmon habitat and water quality.

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Salmon River Ranger District 🏷 Watershed management · Wildlife, fish, rare plants Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—