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Significant Effect

Mt. Hood National Forest

MTH Blowdown Insect and Disease Management

Remove excess buildup of dead and down trees including incidental removal of standing stressed dying trees from areas along National Forest System roads 46, 4640, and 5710 to control insect infestation and spread.

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📍 Clackamas River Ranger District 🏷 Forest products · Fuels management · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-06-26

Completed

Significant Effect

Mt. Hood National Forest

MTH Long Prairie Allotment - Reevaluation of Environmental Documents

The Long Prairie Allotment Decision Notice was signed in 2005. A Reevaluation of Environmental Documents (7 CFR 1b.9 (r)) was conducted to evaluate grazing on the Long Prairie Pasture within the allotment.

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📍 Hood River Ranger District 🏷 Grazing management Added: 2026-06-24

Completed

Significant Effect

Mt. Hood National Forest

South Wasco Ecosystem Resiliency

The project proposes to conduct commercial and non-commercial fuels and vegetation treatments on approximately 19,000 acres.

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Acres (approx.)

19,000

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Mt. Hood National Forest 🏷 Forest products · Fuels management · Regulations, directives, orders · Vegetation management (other than forest products) Added: 2026-06-15

Developing Proposal

Acres (approx.)

19,000

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
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)

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)

Significant Effect

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Baker City Watershed Fuels Management Project

The purpose of this project is to reduce hazardous fuels between the Baker City Watershed and nearby private land.

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📍 Whitman Ranger District 🏷 Forest products · Fuels management · Watershed management Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

Uncategorized

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Buckhorn Radio Shelter and Tower Replacement

A radio communication tower and associated radio shelter need to be replaced due to their poor conditions.

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📍 Wallowa-Whitman National Forest All Units 🏷 Facility management Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

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)

Uncategorized

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Deer Creek Trail Bridge

The North Phillips Lake Trail #1608 parallels State Hwy 7 at Deer Creek Bridge. Currently there is no hiker/bike bridge there. The area is near a state right-of-way. dev of a new foot/bike bridge over Deer Creek will eliminate a hazard

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	03/2023 (Estimated)
Decision	09/2023 (Estimated)
Implementation	10/2023 (Estimated)

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

On Hold Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
Scoping Start	03/2023 (Estimated)
Decision	09/2023 (Estimated)
Implementation	10/2023 (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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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	—

Significant Effect

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Morgan Nesbit Forest Resiliency Project

The purpose of the Project is to conduct restoration management activities to improve forest resiliency and sustainability and improve hydrologic functioning, thereby moving the landscape toward the goals, objectives, and desired future condition(s).

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📍 Wallowa Valley Ranger District 🏷 Forest products · Fuels management · Watershed management · Road management Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

Uncategorized

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Mt. Emily OPB Permit Renewal

Renewal of an existing Special Use Permit

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

Completed

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)

Uncategorized

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

PacifiCorp Mt. Emily SUP

Permit renewal for PacifiCorp's existing Mt. Emily site.

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

Completed

Significant Effect

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Powder River Mining

Analyze proposed mining plans of operations within the Powder River watersheds.

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

Completed

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

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Upper Breshears Trailhead Relocation

Relocate the Breshears trailhead to an existing rock pit with better access to improve safety and an anticipated increase in use.

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📍 Wallowa-Whitman National Forest All Units 🏷 Recreation management Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

Restorative Impact

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

Upper Grande Ronde River Mine Tailings Restoration

Redistribute waste rock from dredge mining along 2 miles of the Upper Grande Ronde River and relocate approximately 1 mile of road to improve floodplain conditions.

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

Completed

Significant Effect

Wallowa-Whitman National Forest

West Wall Defensible Fuels Profile Zone

Establish and maintain fuel breaks to reduce the risk of uncharacteristic wildfire within the Carson/Pine Valley Wildland Urban Interface.

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

Completed

Significant Effect

Mt. Hood National Forest

Basin Thinning Project

The purpose of this project is to restore forest health and resiliency on 110 acres of selected plantations.

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Acres of Selected Plantations

110

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

Completed

Acres of Selected Plantations

110

Uncategorized

Mt. Hood National Forest

Big Eddy-Ostrander Conductor Replacement Project

For more information the Big Eddy-Ostrander Conductor Replacement Project, visit the BPA project website https://www.bpa.gov/learn-and-participate/public-involvement-decisions/project-reviews/big-eddy-ostrander-project

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📍 Mt. Hood National Forest All Units 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

Uncategorized

Mt. Hood National Forest

Cascade Utilities Reflector Decommissioning

A communication reflector, owned by Cascade Utilities, is no longer is use and needs to be removed from National Forest System lands. The microwave dish is 20 feet by 24 feet in size and weighs 9,170 pounds. Once removed, the site would be restored.

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📍 Clackamas River Ranger District 🏷 Special use management · Projects that may affect wilderness (for mailing list contacts) Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

Uncategorized

Mt. Hood National Forest

Cloud Cap Inn Water System Renovation

The proposed action is reconstruction of the existing spring box, redevelopment of the existing spring, and installation of a new distribution main from the spring box to the Cloud Cap Saddle Campground, Cloud Cap Inn and Snowshoe Cabin.

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

Completed

Significant Effect

Mt. Hood National Forest

Consent for Geothermal Leasing

The Bureau of Land Management (BLM) received nominations of National Forest System lands to be considered for a future, competitive geothermal lease sale. The Forest Service is considering whether to consent to the BLM to lease these lands.

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

Completed

Significant Effect

Mt. Hood National Forest

Hootnanny Insect and Disease

The primary purposes of this project are to reduce the risk of landscape level disturbance and increase forest resiliency to insect and disease.

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

Completed

Significant Effect

Mt. Hood National Forest

MTH Anvil Vegetation Management Project

This project seeks to improve forest health and diversity in plantations. In addition, this project seeks to reduce excessive fuel loading primarily along forest roads. Approximately 4,000 acres may be proposed for vegetation and fuels treatments.

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Acres (approx.)

4,000

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

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

Developing Proposal

Acres (approx.)

4,000

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

Uncategorized

Mt. Hood National Forest

MTH Cascade Utilities Fiber Optic at Ripplebrook

Install fiber communication cable along existing roads, to provide high speed internet to the Ripplebrook administrative site.

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📍 Mt. Hood National Forest 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

Uncategorized

Mt. Hood National Forest

MTH Clear Branch Dam Remediation

There is a need to remediate Clear Branch Dam to meet current dam safety and environmental compliance standards in order to continue to provide a clean dependable water supply for the Upper Hood River valley. More information at: clearbranchdam.com.

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	6/18/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Mt. Hood National Forest 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	6/18/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

Significant Effect

Mt. Hood National Forest

MTH Lost Lake Late Successional Reserve Acre Swap

There is a need to amend the Forest Plan to remove the high use recreational area of Lost Lake Resort, Campground and Day Use Area from Late-successional Reserve (LSR), and reallocate more appropriate areas as LSR.

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	8/20/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Mt. Hood National Forest 🏷 Land management planning Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	8/20/2025
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Mt. Hood National Forest

MTH Timberline Chairlifts and Improvements

To improve connectivity between Summit Pass and Timberline Lodge, enhance skiing experience, and improve communications, the following is proposed: replacement of Summit Pass chairlift and new chairlift construction, ski terrain improvements, and fiber optic cable installation.

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

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📍 Mt. Hood National Forest 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-05-28

Developing Proposal Categorical Exclusion

Milestone	Date
NEPA Start Date	—
Finding/Decision Date	—

Uncategorized

Mt. Hood National Forest

Portland General Electric (PGE) Undergrounding Summit 13 Distribution Powerline

As part of PGE's Wildfire Mitigation Plan, there is a need to minimize wildland fire risk associated with utilities in the National Forest. Therefore, this project would underground approximately 5 miles of existing powerline.

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

Completed

Uncategorized

Mt. Hood National Forest

Routine Repair and Maintenance of Existing Utilities in Ski Areas

Ski areas have ongoing repair and maintenance needs to meet Forest Service standards. This project allows for ski areas to better maintain existing utilities within permitted areas.

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📍 Mt. Hood National Forest All Units 🏷 Special use management Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

Significant Effect

Mt. Hood National Forest

Stone Creek Vegetation Management Project

The project seeks to improve forest health and diversity on approximately 3,225 acres within the Oak Grove Fork Clackamas River watershed.

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Acres (approx.)

3,225

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

Completed

Acres (approx.)

3,225

Uncategorized

Mt. Hood National Forest

Timberline Mountain Bike Connector Trails

There is a need to move advanced riders away from beginner riders more efficiently by adding short trail connectors from the Gravy Train Trail and upper Brobi Wan Trail. Also, a 245-foot trail alignment would be added to The Rock Trail.

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📍 Zigzag Ranger District 🏷 Recreation management · Special use management Added: 2026-05-28

Completed

Significant Effect

Mt. Hood National Forest

Wapinitia Fuels Reduction

The purpose of this project is to improve forest conditions by reducing accumulated fuels on approximately 100 acres west of the Wapinitia subdivision. Work includes non-commercial hand-cutting trees 6-8 inches DBH. Access will use existing roads.

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Acres (approx.)

100

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

Completed

Acres (approx.)

100