LFDC NEPA Tracker

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	—

Restorative Impact

MBS, ONF, Okan-Wen, Colville

Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail Comprehensive Plan

The Comprehensive Plan will develop administrative and management objectives and practices and desired conditions for the Pacific Northwest National Scenic Trail on public lands in Forest Service Regions 1 and Regions 6.

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📍 R6 - Pacific Northwest Region All Units 🏷 Recreation management · Special area management Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

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

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

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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Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

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

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Colville National Forest

Bulldog supplemental

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

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Colville National Forest

Burnt Taco Salvage

Approximately 200 acres of fire salvage within the Little Tacoma Creek Stewardship Sale area. To view the FANEC, please visit the public Pinyon site: https://usfs-public.app.box.com/v/PinyonPublic/folder/362928529671

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Acres of Salvage

200

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

Completed

Acres of Salvage

200

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

Ferry Lake Campground Hazard Tree Removal

Removal of Hazard Trees from the Ferry Lake Campground to provide for public safety.

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

Completed

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

Katy Creek Salvage

Dead and dying fire-damaged trees between 7 in and 21 in dbh will be salvaged on approximately 137 acres from within the fire perimeter. Approximately 270 trees over 21 in dbh have been identified as safety concerns and/or hazard trees to be removed.

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Acres (approx.)

137

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

Completed

Acres (approx.)

137

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

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

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	—

Mixed Impact

Colville National Forest

Sherman Highway Aquatic Restoration

Project includes culvert replacements, installing aquatic organism passages, bridge work, and historic streambed reconstruction. Activities will occur on/along State Highway 20 between Kettle Falls and Republic, WA.

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	09/28/2020
Decision	10/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	06/2026 (Estimated)

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📍 Three Rivers Ranger District 🏷 Wildlife, fish, rare plants · Watershed management · Road management Added: 2026-05-28

On Hold Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	09/28/2020
Decision	10/2025 (Estimated)
Implementation	06/2026 (Estimated)

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

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)

Mixed Impact

Siuslaw National Forest

Long Term Development of a Plan to Restore Vehicular Access to Cascade Head via FSR 1861

To re-establish safe vehicular access to upper Cascade Head and stabilize landslide impacted areas from a 2021 landslide.

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	01/2026 (Estimated)
Decision	01/2029 (Estimated)
Implementation	01/2029 (Estimated)

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📍 Hebo Ranger District 🏷 Recreation management · Road management Added: 2026-05-28

On Hold

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	01/2026 (Estimated)
Decision	01/2029 (Estimated)
Implementation	01/2029 (Estimated)

Significant Effect

Siuslaw National Forest

Marys Peak Thatch Burning Project

This project is intended to remove built-up thatch produced from a large patch of treated creeping velvetgrass (Holcus mollis) by mowing, burning, and other actions and to revegetate these sites with native plants sourced exclusively from Marys Peak.

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📍 Central Coast Ranger District/Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area 🏷 Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

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)

Uncategorized

Siuslaw National Forest

ODNRA South Jetty and Eel Creek Water Systems

Drinking water system replacement at Eel Creek Campground and South Jetty Area. Work at this facility would include waterline and treatment system replacement and well rehabilitation.

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📍 Central Coast Ranger District/Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area 🏷 Facility management Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

Significant Effect

Siuslaw National Forest

Oregon Dunes National Recreation Area OHV Sound Limit Forest Plan Amendment

Forest Plan amendment proposal to increase the sound limit for ORVs to more nearly match those of Oregon State DEQ limits.

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	05/25/2021
Comment Period	12/2022 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start	02/2023 (Estimated)
Decision	04/2023 (Estimated)
Implementation	05/2023 (Estimated)

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📍 Siuslaw National Forest All Units 🏷 Land management planning · Recreation management Added: 2026-05-28

On Hold Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	05/25/2021
Comment Period	12/2022 (Estimated)
Objection Period Start	02/2023 (Estimated)
Decision	04/2023 (Estimated)
Implementation	05/2023 (Estimated)

Significant Effect

Siuslaw National Forest

Sand Lake Restoration Project

This is a landscape-scale restoration project in the Sand Lake watershed. Activities include: plantation thinning, fish and wildlife habitat enhancement, invasive plant treatments, road and recreation improvements, and sand dune restoration.

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📍 Hebo Ranger District 🏷 Recreation management · Special area management · Wildlife, fish, rare plants · Forest products · Vegetation management (other than forest products) · Road management Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

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	—